Flowers Are Pretty Weird!

By Rosemary Mosco, Jacob Souva (Illustrator)

Part of the Nature's Top Secrets series

Discover the bizarre secrets of flowers with a curious bee's revelations.

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36 pages

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Bookroo's summary

A curious bee unveils the bizarre world of flowers, revealing their strange secrets. From ghostly blooms to those that reek of decay, these plants defy their pretty reputation. Why do some only bloom at night? What makes them so peculiar? Dive into this hilarious exploration of nature's oddities and uncover the fascinating, sometimes disgusting truth about flowers. Prepare to be amazed and amused by the unexpected wonders of the floral world.

From the publisher

Warning – this book contains top-secret information about flowers! Prepare to be shocked and weirded out by this hilarious and totally true picture book introduction to some of nature’s strangest plants. Flowers are beautiful. They have bright colors, soft petals and sweet nectar. Yum! But that’s not the whole truth. Flowers can be WEIRD . . . and one bee is here to let everyone know! Talking directly to the reader, a bee reveals how flowers are so much stranger than what we think. Did you know that there are some flowers that only bloom in the nighttime? Some flowers are spooky, and look like ghosts, or bats, or a monster’s mouth. And while most flowers smell good, there are some that smell like dead meat, or even horse poop! This hilarious and refreshing book with silly and sweet illustrations explores the science of flowers and shows that these plants are not always stereotypically pretty and harmless as we often think they are – they are fascinating, disgusting, complicated and amazing.

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