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| Plants That Eat Animals (Rookie Read-About Science) | 
| Author: Allan Fowler
Publisher: Children's Press (CT)
Category: Book
List Price: $4.95
Buy New: $1.85
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 241626
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 32
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0
Dimensions (in): 6.8 x 5.7 x 0.2
ISBN: 0516273094
Dewey Decimal Number: 583.75
EAN: 9780516273099
ASIN: 0516273094
Publication Date: November 2001
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: Brand New. Delivery is usually 5 - 8 working days from order, International is by Royal Mail Airmail
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| Customer Reviews:
 Great Teacher Resource December 7, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I'm a middle school science teacher. I have these books available for the students to look at. They are pretty basic, but great pictures. Not a lot of information on them, but nice to have around for a general resource.
 Plants eat animals - read all about it....... November 6, 2004
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
With each page of text consisting of up to two paragraphs with one or two sentences this was a breeze for my son to read while marveling at the insects and plants. The last page of the Rookie Read-About Science - Plants that Eat Animals lists an alphabetized index of said insects and plants as well as credits for all the photographs presented.
The facts discussed inside Rookie Read-About Science - Plants that Eat Animals begin by explaining All plants need water and minerals to grow. The photograph depicts the soil surrounding the plant. There is a photograph that captures a fly trapped inside a plant that gives the reader an eye view of this process clearer than the naked eye would allow.
There is a photograph showing the leaves of a Venus's flytrap as well as how it looks when catching a cricket. Each of the leaves looks like a clam's shell with sharp spines and soft hairs inside. The leaves have a sweet juice smell that draws the insects in. Once an insect touches the hairs on the leaf they will snap shut until the plant has removed the minerals from the insect's body.
For descriptive details on how plants eat animals perfectly suited for kids that can read. My son thought it was very neat to see the plants in action as they captured the insects. I had to remind him how he acted when he found a lizard in the front yard a few weeks ago and wanted to run it over with a tricycle. We went inside and watched it from the window safely. The text was easy for him to read as well as the underlying captions for each photograph.
Even though my son is no rookie when it comes to animals and the topic of science, this still was a worthwhile book to borrow and learn through visualization how some plants we have never seen before go about catching insects for their meals.
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