Amazing Plant Powers: How Plants Fly, Fight, Hide, Hunt, and Change the World

<p><b>This inventive introduction to the plant world combines facts about basic botany and fun with amusing characters and surprising information.</b></p><p>Imagine if plants had superhero qualities. According to Spike E. Prickles, a TV personality who happens to be a cactus, plants have plenty of awesome abilities, and his houseplant fans agree. From protecting themselves from forest fires and voracious leaf-eating insects to surviving in hostile environments that are numbingly cold or stiflingly hot, Spike highlights the impressive range of adaptations plants have developed.</p><p>Includes a glossary and plant projects to try at home and in school. </p>