An interactive guessing game featuring nature's most unusual
adaptations and characteristics
Can you tell the difference between a rock, a plant, and an animal?
While it might sound simple, the vast diversity of life on earth can
throw us some serious curveballs! Sometimes, what looks like a plant is
actually an animal. Other times, what looks like an animal is actually a
plant! Even things that look like living creatures can turn out to be
unique rocks.
Young readers are encouraged to challenge their pre-existing ideas about
the natural world in this engaging nonfiction book set up as a
scientific guessing game, filled with lively illustrations and fun
facts.
Each spread features a realistic illustration of either a puzzling
critter, a perplexing plant, or a special stone. Every picture is
accompanied by a simple prompt: rock, plant, or animal? The answer is
revealed by turning the page to discover a beautifully detailed scene
and a brief description of the "species." Even for the most esteemed
naturalists, the answers are hard to believe! Rock? Plant? Animal?
lets its readers be detectives, encouraging curiosity and embracing
surprise.