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Barman, Adrienne

Plantopedia: A Celebration of Nature's Greatest Show-Offs

200 pp. | Quarto/Wide Eyed | May, 2018 | Trade ISBN 978-1-78603-139-6 $22.99

(4) K-3 This richly illustrated visual miscellany of plant types and functions celebrates botanical biodiversity. Presented alphabetically (if botanically disordered), the browsable volume covers plant groups from aquatics, deciduous, and perennials to "the big eaters," "the stinkers," and "the magical." With pictorial jokes on nearly every spread, exuberance and humor trump scientific information. Includes a useful appendix of illustrated leaf shapes. Glos., ind.

Reviewer: Paula M. Cairo