Collection: Junior Non-Fiction Environment

What is a glacier calf? Which animals turn white in winter? Who was the first explorer to reach the South Pole? In Focus: Polar Lands has the answers. In Focus is a new information series, featuring magazine-style pages, top 10 lists, fast facts, quickfire quizzes, and more.

Look around you--plastic is everywhere! It's in your shoes, pens, toothbrush, car, toys, TV, water bottles, food packaging... It's almost impossible to get through one day without using it. And it's creating major problems for our world, our oceans, our animals and marine life, and ourselves. In ...

From tiny seeds and weeds to massive trees, plants come in all different shapes, sizes and colours. They can be found all over the world. In fact, they're so common, we hardly notice them at all. But plants are the foundation of all life on Earth - without them, we cannot survive! They provide fo...

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 foo...

Plantastic! presents 26 of Australia's most unique and incredible native plants. Discover and identify native plants found in your local park, bushland, or even in your very own backyard. A gorgeous A to Z exploration of some of Australia's most unique and incredible native plants. Did you know t...

This series highlights the relationship betweem human need and plant life in both our local and global environments.

Looking at the amazing variety of plants around the world, this title focuses on the ingenious ways in which plants ensure that their leaves have access to sunlight, water and carbon dioxide so that they can photosynthesise, and how they deter creatures that may try to eat them.

This series highlights the relationship betweem human need and plant life in both our local and global environments.