When Plants Attack

In the wild, it's eat or be eaten. Each living thing is on a mission to survive another day—including plants. And the measures they take can be downright deadly. Get a close-up look at meat-eating plants that trap unsuspecting mammals, African trees that enlist armies of biting ants as bodyguards, and an Australian shrub with prickly, poison-filled leaves that have landed unsuspecting humans in the hospital. But don’t get too close or . . . OUCH!

Strange and Terrifying Plants

Millbrook Press 2019
ISBN-10: 1541526708
ISBN-13: 978-1541526709
48 pp. hardcover

Awards

  • AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books Longlist

  • Junior Library Guild slection

Reviews

  • "This survey of wild, unusual, and terrifying flora munches across eight chapters."

    Kirkus Reviews

  • "Curious readers will be eager to learn more about these creepy plants."

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