Explorer : Plants!

This fun reference book features more than 100 plants, from familiar flowers and trees to unusual plants from around the world.

Stop and smell the roses with Agent Osprey as she works to uncover the mysterious world of plants! Plants! includes a 1.8-metre-long timeline, featuring over 100 plants from their first known forms through to their living descendants and a fascinating journal that looks into how they have survived and thrived. Plants! is the latest entry in the Explorer series from What on Earth Books. Bugs and Dinosaurs! are winners of a Parents’ Choice Silver Award 2018.

Book Features:

• This fun reference book features more than 100 plants, from familiar flowers and trees to unusual plants from around the world.
• A female explorer models the can-do spirit and impartial observation of scientific inquiry.
• An 8-page fold-out timeline invites kids to spread out on the floor and explore.

About the Author

Nick Forshaw is an author and editor based in Berlin. He has written a history of the evolution of the dinosaurs, explored the way insects, arachnids and other creepy crawlies first developed, taken a close look at the way plants thrive on our green planet and investigated hundreds of different species of mammal that have evolved on planet Earth.

About the Illustrator

William Exley divides his time between writing and illustrating graphic novels – including Golemchik (Nobrow Press) – and illustrating children’s nonfiction.Plants! and Mammals! are his second and third titles for What on Earth Books.