by Amy Stewart, Coleen Marlo
I don't have much to say about this one, other than that it doesn't really work as an audiobook. The physical book is very twee, and might be enjoyable for its illustrations and quaint design: But to listen to, it's pretty tedious. The narrator rattles off scientific names, dimensions, locati...
Really interesting book, full of surprising and sometimes nasty tidbits about plants you might have in your garden.
It's a list with descriptions of poisonous plants around the world with a few stories strawn in for good measure. There are drawings of some of the plants. I had to deduct one star because there are no color photos.
Very informative. I learned quite a bit and new knowledge is always welcome. I would have given four stars but some of the art work seemed detrimental to the overall work.
I found this kind of repetitive and... well, frankly, a little boring. I wanted more stories about real people, on the order of the Lincoln's mom story. There were lots of little informative bits, but not as many anecdotes as I thought I'd be getting. I was also a little skeptical of some of the inf...
This book contains a lot of factoids of various plants as well as a quick background on how some plants were used. This book is a great bathroom read or coffee table book. It is by no means comprehensive nor does the author claim it to be as such.On a stylistic note, I love the old world feeling yo...
Very cool!
Wicked Plants is a sort of capsule collection of plants that have some sort of harmful effect. That's a vague summary, because there's a wide variety here, from poisonous to irritating to invasive. Each plant has a very short write up that describes what it is and what makes it so bad. There's also ...
Rating: 3.5* of fiveThe Book Report: Bite-sized reports of the horrible horrible scary itchy deadly horrible doings of the Kingdom Plantae. Illustrated with beautiful woodcuts by Briony Morrow-Cribbs, that are, by themselves, worth the price of the book.My Review: I swear I have never bathed so ofte...
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