Rock? Plant? Animal?: How Nature Keeps Us Guessing

By Etta Kaner

Book Overview

An interactive guessing game featuring nature's most unusual adaptations and characteristics

Can you tell the difference between a rock, a plant, and an animal? While it might sound simple, the vast diversity of life on earth can throw us some serious curveballs! Sometimes, what looks like a plant is actually an animal. Other times, what looks like an animal is actually a plant! Even things that look like living creatures can turn out to be unique rocks.

Young readers are encouraged to challenge their pre-existing ideas about the natural world in this engaging nonfiction book set up as a scientific guessing game, filled with lively illustrations and fun facts.

Each spread features a realistic illustration of either a puzzling critter, a perplexing plant, or a special stone. Every picture is accompanied by a simple prompt: rock, plant, or animal? The answer is revealed by turning the page to discover a beautifully detailed scene and a brief description of the "species." Even for the most esteemed naturalists, the answers are hard to believe! Rock? Plant? Animal? lets its readers be detectives, encouraging curiosity and embracing surprise.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1771474440
• ISBN13: 9781771474443
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: Owlkids
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 9.7" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 3