Mary Batten

Hungry Plants

Do plants really eat insects? Yes, they do. Snap! The leaves of a Venus flytrap slam shut around a fat bumblebee. There's no way for the bee to get out. The flytrap has just caught its dinner! Why do some plants eat meat? Why do they bait, snap, trick, and trap any bug they can? Come in for a closer look at the world of hungry plants.

Random House 2004
Grade Level: K-4

SRA/McGraw Hill - 2008 Corrective Reading Program

A Children's Book of the Month Club selection 2004

Recommended by the National Science Teachers Association 2005

Selected Works

Nonfiction
Sexual Strategies: How Females Choose Their Mates
The role that female choice plays in the evolution of species.
Who Has A Belly Button?
Every person in the world and many animals have belly buttons. Do you know why? This book gives the answer in terms that young readers can understand.
War: A Culture of Death
War is hell on Earth. The world's armed forces are the single biggest polluters of the planet.
Aliens From Earth: When Animals and Plants Invade Other Ecosystems
When exotic species invade ecosystems, they threaten the existence of native species and upset the balance of life.
Hey, Daddy! Animal Fathers and Their Babies
Single mothers are the norm throughout the animal kingdom, but there are some animal daddies that care for their young in remarkable ways.
Wild Cats
Lions and tigers and cheetahs, oh my!
Anthropologist: Scientist of the People
This book is about anthropologist Magdalena Hurtado and her work with a group of hunter-gatherers in Paraguay.
The Winking, Blinking Sea
All about bioluminescence
Hungry Plants
About the bizarre world of carnivorous plants.
Baby Wolf
A baby gray wolf grows up.
Nonfiction/science
PLEASE DON'T WAKE THE ANIMALS
A book about sleep.

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