Description: This illustrated nonfiction picture book explores the unique and disgusting ways plants protect themselves.
Brief description:
Erin Silver is an award-winning children's author. Her books include Rush Hour: Navigating Our Global Traffic Jam (Blueberry Award winner), Sitting Shiva (OLA Best Bets, Vine Award finalist, TD Canadian Children's Literature Award finalist), All Consuming: Shop Smarter for the Planet (Hackmatack Award nominee), In It to Win It: Sports and the Climate Crisis (Green Earth Book Award winner) and Good Food, Bad Waste: Let's Eat for the Planet (2024 American Association for the Advancement of Science/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books finalist). She is also the author of two nonfiction picture books for younger readers, Mighty Scared and Plant Attack! (Silver Birch Express Honor Book). Erin is a sought-after speaker at schools, libraries and conferences. She has an MFA in creative nonfiction and a postgraduate journalism degree. Erin lives in Toronto.
Review Quotes:
"Digitally created illustrations are bold, bright and animated, allowing readers to imagine the plants in their typical habitat. Cartoon-style drawings also give them 'personalities' to go along with the kid-friendly plant POV paragraphs, a strategy that may help kids remember specific plant attributes. A good introduction to a fascinating aspect of plant biology, highlighting characteristics that many may know little about. Highly recommended."
-- "CM: Canadian Review of Materials"