Fly Traps! Plants that Bite Back (Read and Discover)

Martin Jenkins, David Parkins Diploma from Lincoln College of Art

ISBN 10: 1406318647 / ISBN 13: 9781406318647

Published by Walker 06/12/2010, 2010

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Fly Traps! Plants that Bite Back (Read and Discover)
• Publisher: Walker 06/12/2010
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1406318647
• ISBN 13: 9781406318647
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

One of a new series of books, "Read and Discover", designed to encourage children to learn about the world as they learn to read. Squishy bladderworts, sticky sundews, cobra lilies and Venus flytraps - plants that bite back are amazing! It supports KS1-2 Science and Literacy. It is written in consultation with the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education. It offers non-fiction for developing readers. It includes texts and illustrations which support children learning to read. It contains extra information sections at the back of the book with index, author and illustrator biography.

About the Author

Martin Jenkins is a conservationist biologist and has written on conservation issues for organizations like the WWF and mulitple UN bodies. After advising on Walker Books' Animals at Risk series he has written many of this own titles including The Emperor's Egg, winner of the Times Junior Information Book of the Year Award. Fly Traps! Plants that Bite Back was also nominated for the same award. David Parkins is an illustrator, whose roots lie in wildlife illustration. His works spans multiple genres and mediums, most famously drawing the character Dennis the Menace for The Beano.