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Series
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Mickey, Donald and Goofy climb up a fantastic beanstalk into the sky to a place where everything is huge, including the food, a castle and a fearsome giant named Willy who guards a beautiful golden harp. Mickey and his friends will have to outwit Willy in order to make it home safely. Includes 4 other Disney animated films.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
From mud tracks on a quiet country road to dirt specks on the soles of walking boots, forensic ecologist Patricia Wiltshire uses her decades of scientific expertise to find often-overlooked clues left behind by criminal activity. She detects evidence and eliminates hypotheses armed with little more than a microscope, eventually developing a compelling thesis of the who, what, how, and when of a crime. Wiltshire's remarkable accuracy has made her one...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
One of the most acclaimed and revered writers of her generation returns with her most ambitious novel yet--an elegant, multi-layered work, rich in imagination and exquisitely told, that interweaves a quartet of journeys across continents and centuries. As emotionally resonant as Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss, as inspired as Anthony Doerr's Cloud Cuckoo Land, as inventive as Louisa Hall's Speak, and as visionary as David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer's best-selling book Braiding Sweetgrass is adapted for a young adult audience by children's author Monique Gray Smith, bringing Indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the lessons of plant life to a new generation"--
47) What is a plant?
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Introduces plant life, specific types such as carnivorous and parasitic plants, and concepts such as single cells, germination, and photosynthesis.
49) Plant parts
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Describes the world of plants and the various parts of specific plants, such as flower, seed, roots, trunk, and more.
50) Weird plants
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"This unique book explores a fascinating world in which plants trick, kill, steal and kidnap--plants you could scarcely imagine even exist: carnivores that drug, drown and consume unsuspecting insect prey; flowers that mimic rotting flesh to attract pollinating flies, and orchids that duplicitously look, feel and even smell like a female insect to bamboozle sex-crazed male bees. Author Chris Thorogood showcases these plant behaviours and the intrigue...
Author
Pub. Date
c2014
Language
English
Description
"David Attenborough meets Lemony Snicket in The Big Bad Book of Botany, Michael Largo's entertaining and enlightening one-of-a-kind compendium of the world's most amazing and bizarre plants, their history, and their lore. The Big, Bad Book of Botany introduces a world of wild, wonderful, and weird plants. Some are so rare, they were once more valuable than gold. Some found in ancient mythology hold magical abilities, including the power to turn a...
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