Be a City Nature Detective: Solving the Mysteries of How Plants and Animals Survive in the Urban Jungle

Name: Be a City Nature Detective: Solving the Mysteries of How Plants and Animals Survive in the Urban Jungle
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How do bedbugs get into your home? Why are some grey squirrels black? Does goldenrod cause hay fever?

Naturalist and artist Peggy Kochanoff answers these questions and more in this illustrated guide to solving nature mysteries in the city.

From the author of Silver Birch-nominated Be a Nature Detective series comes a new adventure full of fascinating facts and original watercolours. From scuttling cockroaches to waves of starlings to burdock heads on your clothes, Kochanoff takes the reader through city streets to show them the amazing nature growing there. Features a glossary, identification page, and further reading.

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SKU: 2678 Categories: Books, Children's, Nature Tags: book, guide, kids, nature

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Peggy Kochanoff graduated from Cornell University with a degree in vertebrate zoology and spent a summer working at the Central Park Zoo in New York City. She is the author and illustrator of several books for children, including the Be a Nature Detective series. After marriage and traveling, she settled with her husband and two sons on a tree farm in Nova Scotia.

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Title	Be a City Nature Detective: Solving the Mysteries of How Plants and Animals Survive in the Urban Jungle
Package Dimensions	Height: 30, Length: 860, Weight: 53, Width: 800
EAN	9781771085724
Studio	Nimbus Publishing
Release Date	2018-04-30
Publisher	Nimbus Publishing
Publication Date	2018-04-19
Product Type Name	ABIS_BOOK
Product Group	Book
Number Of Pages	56
Binding	Paperback
Number Of Items	1
Manufacturer Minimum Age	72
Manufacturer Maximum Age	96
Manufacturer	Nimbus Publishing
Label	Nimbus Publishing
Item Dimensions	Height: 850, Length: 790, Weight: 50, Width: 20
ISBN (X)	177108572
EAN List	EAN List Element: 9781771085724
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