Plants!

by Nick Forshaw, William Exley (Illustrator)

Overview

Stop and smell the roses with Agent Osprey as she works to uncover the beautiful world of plants! Plants! includes a six-foot-long timeline, featuring over 100 plants from their first known forms through to their living descendants, and looks into how they have survived and thrived. Join our explorer on her quest to find out as much as possible about these amazing specimens in her fascinating journal. Find out key discoveries, how they support our environment, and more! Plants! by Nick Forshaw and William Exley is latest to join Bugs!, Mammals!, and Dinosaurs! in the Explorer series from What on Earth Books. 

Bugs! and Dinosaurs! are winners of a Parents’ Choice Silver Award 2018.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780995577084
Publisher:	What on Earth Publishing
Publication date:	03/05/2019
Series:	Explorer , #4
Pages:	38
Product dimensions:	9.70(w) x 9.50(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	7 - 11 Years

About the Author

Nick Forshaw holds a BA and MA in film and literary studies. He hopes his readers love learning about the world and all the things in it just as much as he does.

William Exley is an illustrator living in south-east London. When not illustrating Explorer books he also works on comics.

Editorial Reviews

"Following a pair of review quizzes (answers, refreshingly, not provided in a separate key), [the] special feature—a one-sided, 6-foot-long, accordion-folded timeline studded with painted depictions of around 100 identified specimens, select landmark events such as the K-T extinction and the appearance of an early farmer." —Kirkus Revews

“Author, Nick Forshaw, and illustrator, William Exley, have teamed up once more and created another exceptional informational text to add to their What On Earth Explorer Series. This time they focus on ‘Plants’ … The coverage of the material is thorough and well-designed for the inquiring minds of students in Grades 3 to 7.” —Youth Services Book Review

“This book is a treasure and can be read pictorially by younger readers and in more depth by others.” —Manhattan Book Review

“From plant origins, to plant discoveries, each four page chapter is full of facts and detailed sketches illustrating the text. After seven chapters, the book has a fun matching game, and a plant quiz, to see if you’ve been paying attention. The book ends with a fabulous six-foot timeline of plants … This book is full of informational text and ideal for late elementary to early middle grade readers.” —Oregon Coast Youth Book Preview Center

From the Publisher

"Children LOVE the ‘What on Earth?’ format."

Teachers Book Awards Review

It simply sings to info-philes and visual learners alike. It is a superlative mastery of design and research, a treat to eye and brain alike.

JUNO Magazine

"Fun and full of interesting facts."

Booklist

2019-01-28

Highlights in the long history of plants, from primeval algae to genetically modified rice.

Ada Osprey, intrepid librarian of the Eagle-Eyed Explorer Club, invites readers to tag along as she travels back in time, busily taking notes. Sounding rather a lot like lectures, these cover the distinctive characteristics of plants, how cyanobacteria kicked off plant evolution by embedding themselves in other single-celled organisms, the development in plants of different strategies for survival and reproduction, the invention of agriculture, and finally our use and misuse of fossil fuels and other plant-based products. Along the way six "plant Explorers" such as geneticist Gregor Mendel and botanical illustrator Marianne North earn short profiles. Following a pair of review quizzes (answers, refreshingly, not provided in a separate key) she presents the survey's special feature—a one-sided, 6-foot-long, accordion-folded timeline studded with painted depictions of around 100 identified specimens, select landmark events such as the K-T extinction and the appearance of an early farmer (wielding, anachronistically, a metal sickle) and explanatory captions. Ada has brown skin and long, dark hair. A similar timeline graces the co-published Mammals!, with a gallery of hominins (all male, brown-skinned, and, with the exception of a downright dapper Homo habilis, unkempt) marching amid a throng of smiling, now-extinct prehistoric contemporary creatures.

Quick but wide-angled overviews. (index, glossary) (Novelty nonfiction. 8-11)

Kirkus Reviews