Nature Shockers

Boat swallowed by ocean belch! Smart slime solves maze! Fifteen-hundred-year-old fungus heavy as a whale!Award-winning kids science writer Keltie Thomas returns with a collection of jaw-dropping, eye-dropping facts about nature. Inspired by wacky tabloid headlines, Nature Shockers is an expose of nature's wonders: a tantalizing accumulation of strange-but-true information about the world around you.From fanged fish with "lures" growing from their heads to lizards that walk on water, from lake monsters to killer plants, scientific theories and researchers' conclusions provide amazing-but-true explanations for the weirdest of Earth's creations.Eye-catching illustrations and a punchy "tabloid" design make the fast-paced text pop off the page. Readers will be inspired by the science and impressed by the scenes. "Hoax Busters" quizzes also test whether readers can tell which stories really are too crazy to believe.Thomas, Keltie is the author of 'Nature Shockers ' with ISBN 9781897066294 and ISBN 1897066295.