Plants that Eat Animals (Rookie Read-About Science: Plants and Fungi)

This book was perfect for one of my reluctant readers. He just hated, hated, hated to read. I first played a short BBC video clip from YouTube to engage him and then presented this book to him and he was hooked! The pictures are eye-catching and worked well with the text. This book led him to read other books about carnivorous plants with a higher text complexity and eventually to other books about plants in general.

Great for my 2nd grade son to read independently, or as a read aloud for pre-K and up. Now I've got to find live plants on Amazon and have them shipped because we're really into this subject now!

I purchased this book as a gift for my seven year old grand child to help explain the differences between the different typos of carnivorous plants. The book was accompanied by a pitcher plant.

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Great book for teaching kids

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.

I wish I had know the reading level of this book. It was way too young for my twelve year old grandson. I donated it to a first grade classroom.

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.

Gave my granddaughter a venus flytrap recently as she is fascinated by these plants. This book is a very useful and easy read for a child.

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didn't realise it was meant for children so gave it to granddaughter.