Plants & fungi!
2023
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The ultimate nature book for children, this plant encyclopedia has everything from cacti and carnivorous plants to trees, flowers, and mushrooms. Why are flowers colourful and fruits sweet? How does a carnivorous plant kill its prey? Why do stinging nettles sting? How do trees turn light into food? Knowledge Encyclopedia- Plants and Fungi! tells you everything you need to know about plants and fungi by showing you how they work with beautiful illustrations. Peer inside a leaf, watch a seed sprout, follow a root underground, and see how a flower becomes a fruit. Life on Earth couldn't exist without plants and fungi. Plants create the food we eat and the oxygen we breathe. They regulate the climate, provide habitats for animals, and produce sustainable resources that we can use to make books, clothes, furniture and houses. Fungi are just as important. Nature's great recyclers, they turn the living world's leftovers into essential nutrients that plants and animals can use again. Knowledge Encyclopedia; Plants and Fungi! shows how plants and fungi form the foundations of every ecosystem, making our planet habitable. Every page is packed with incredible facts and statistics. Did you know that the seeds of the Australian snottygobble plant don't grow until they've been pooed out by emus? Or that the world's oldest tree began growing before the pyramids were built? Or that the world's largest organism is a fungus the size of 1600 football fields? Or that some fungi can take over the brains of insects and turn them into zombies?
Main title:
Plants & fungi! / contributors, Professor Lynne Boddy, Dr Chris Clennett, Wendy Horobin, Dr Sarah Jose, Jo Locke ; consultants, Professor Lynne Boddy, Professor Beverley Glover ; illustrators, Andrew Beckett, Peter Bull, Arran Lewis, Sofian Moumene, and KJA Artists.
Author:
Boddy, Lynne, contributor, consultantClennett, Chris, contributorHorobin, Wendy, contributorJose, Sarah, contributorLocke, Jo, contributorGlover, Beverley J. (Beverley Jane), consultantBeckett, Andrew, illustratorBull, Peter, 1960-, illustratorLewis, Arran, illustratorMoumene, Sofian, 1985-, illustratorKJA Artists (Firm), illustrator
Imprint:
London : Dorling Kindersley Limited, 2023.©2023
Collation:
208 pages : colour illustrations ; 31 cm.
Series title:
Notes:
Includes index.
Audience:
Interest age level: 9-12 years old.
ISBN:
9780241623275 (hbk)9780241623275
Dewey class:
580.3580
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
552580
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hampton Library | Junior Non-Fiction Environment | J 580 PLA | Available |