Flowers Are Pretty ... Weird!

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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.One of CCBC's Best Books for Kids & Teens (Fall 2022)

[I]nformative words are accompanied by pretty textured illustrations. . . . Both educational and humorous, this is highly recommended. —STARRED REVIEW, School Library Journal

Jacob Souva's illustrations keep a playful scrapbook aesthetic . . . [and] Mosco's simple wordings and frequent bee check-ins keep the book grounded and engaging, particularly as an interactive lap read. —CM Reviews

Buzz on through the pages for a silly, yet informative, tour of the wild and weird world of flowers. —Story Monsters InkROSEMARY MOSCO makes books, articles, cartoons and graphics that connect people with the natural world. Her nature comics were the subject of an award-winning museum exhibit and are collected in a book that was a 2019 ALA Great Graphic Novel for Teens. She co-wrote the New York Times bestseller The Atlas Obscura Explorer's Guide for the World's Most Adventurous Kid. She speaks at birding festivals and nature centers and writes for Audubon.

JACOB SOUVA has a beautiful wife, two amazing sons and resides in a small countryside community in upstate New York. He loves to make kids laugh and think with his illustrations. Jacob sketches constantly and finishes his work digitally, placing a lot of emphasis on simple shapes, color and lots and lots of texture. Jacob has illustrated several picture books including The Boy with Big, Big Feelings and Pedro's Pan.CN
Mosco, Rosemary
ISBN: 9780735265943

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Children's Books
Pub date
2022-01-01T20:52:46Z
Pages
36
Reading level
Preschool

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Flowers Are Pretty ... Weird!

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.One of CCBC's Best Books for Kids & Teens (Fall 2022)

[I]nformative words are accompanied by pretty textured illustrations. . . . Both educational and humorous, this is highly recommended. —STARRED REVIEW, School Library Journal

Jacob Souva's illustrations keep a playful scrapbook aesthetic . . . [and] Mosco's simple wordings and frequent bee check-ins keep the book grounded and engaging, particularly as an interactive lap read. —CM Reviews

Buzz on through the pages for a silly, yet informative, tour of the wild and weird world of flowers. —Story Monsters InkROSEMARY MOSCO makes books, articles, cartoons and graphics that connect people with the natural world. Her nature comics were the subject of an award-winning museum exhibit and are collected in a book that was a 2019 ALA Great Graphic Novel for Teens. She co-wrote the New York Times bestseller The Atlas Obscura Explorer's Guide for the World's Most Adventurous Kid. She speaks at birding festivals and nature centers and writes for Audubon.

JACOB SOUVA has a beautiful wife, two amazing sons and resides in a small countryside community in upstate New York. He loves to make kids laugh and think with his illustrations. Jacob sketches constantly and finishes his work digitally, placing a lot of emphasis on simple shapes, color and lots and lots of texture. Jacob has illustrated several picture books including The Boy with Big, Big Feelings and Pedro's Pan.CN
Mosco, Rosemary
ISBN: 9780735265943

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Book format

Hardcover

Fiction/nonfiction

Fiction

Genre

Children's Books

Pub date

2022-01-01T20:52:46Z

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