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

by Etta Kaner (Author) Brittany Lane (Illustrator)

Rock? Plant? Animal?: How Nature Keeps Us Guessing
Reading Level: 2nd − 3rd Grade

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.

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$18.95

Kirkus

An enjoyable nature puzzle with welcome substance.

ALA/Booklist

Readers who like quirky guessing games or weird nature facts will get a kick out of this interactive book.

Review quotes

"An enjoyable nature puzzle with welcome substance."— "Kirkus Reviews"
Etta Kaner

Etta Kaner is an award-winning, internationally-known author whose nonfiction books for children have been translated into many languages. A former teacher, she is passionate about science books for young readers. When she's not writing, Etta loves trying out new recipes at her home in Toronto.

Heather Wilson is a Canadian illustrator and designer for animation. She is a graduate of Sheridan College's Illustration program and recipient of the Brenda Clark Visual Narrative Award. Heather grew up on a southern Ontario farm, among corn stalks and strawberry fields. She now resides in Oakville, overlooking Lake Ontario.

Classification
Non-fiction
ISBN-13
9781771474443
Lexile Measure
600
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Owlkids
Publication date
October 04, 2022
Series
-
BISAC categories
JNF037060 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Science & Nature | Earth Sciences - Rocks & Minerals
JNF003000 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Animals | General
JNF051050 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Science & Nature | Biology
JNF037030 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Science & Nature | Flowers & Plants
Library of Congress categories
Picture books
Instructional and educational works
Mimicry (Biology)

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