Flowers Are Pretty ... Weird! by Rosemary Mosco

Flowers Are Pretty ... Weird! by Rosemary Mosco

Warning -- this book contains top-secret information about flowers! Prepare to be shocked and weirded out by this hilarious and totally true picture book introduction to some of nature's strangest plants.

Flowers are beautiful. They have bright colors, soft petals and sweet nectar. Yum! But that's not the whole truth. Flowers can be WEIRD . . . and one bee is here to let everyone know! Talking directly to the reader, a bee reveals how flowers are so much stranger than what we think. Did you know that there are some flowers that only bloom in the nighttime? Some flowers are spooky, and look like ghosts, or bats, or a monster's mouth. And while most flowers smell good, there are some that smell like dead meat, or even horse poop!

This hilarious and refreshing book with silly and sweet illustrations explores the science of flowers and shows that these plants are not always stereotypically pretty and harmless as we often think they are -- they are fascinating, disgusting, complicated and amazing.

Rosemary Mosco is a science writer and artist who is enthusiastic about expressing her enthusiasm for nature. She is the creator of the science webcomic Bird and Moon and has contributed to Audubon, Nature Ecology & Evolution, The Nib, and other publications. She once drew all 162 species of snakes in the United States for six months. The Laysan Albatross is her favorite bird.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9780735265943
ISBN 10	0735265941
Title	Flowers Are Pretty ... Weird!
Author	Rosemary Mosco
Series	Nature's Top Secrets
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Tundra Books
Year published	2022-04-26
Number of pages	36
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.