Kate Petty
Until her death in May 2007 Kate Petty was responsible for the children's books published by the Eden Project in Cornwall, UK.
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Do you know how your jeans grew? Or your bicycle tyres? What does a chocolate tree look like? Where does sugar come from? What makes a garden grow? Meat, fish and dairy products come from animals, but what do animals eat?
Turn the wheel, lift the flaps and pull the tabs to discover the life of the plants we can't do without.
This superb hands-on book features beautifully designed paper engineering that will engage young minds over and over again in a journey of discovery. Kids want to know about the world around them and they'll love the surprises in this book. Parents will admire the respect for nature that it engenders, and they won't want to stop playing with it either!
Inspired and published by The Eden Project in Cornwall, UK, it won the Royal Society/Aventis General Prize for the best scientific book aimed at children under 14 in 2006.
237 x 237 mm, 6 double paged pop-out spreads, cloth-bound hardback with flaps, pop-ups and pull-tabs, suits ages 5 to adult!
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