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Big Belching Bog
Phyllis Root
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Description for Big Belching Bog
Hardback. Illustrator(s): Bowen, Betsy. Num Pages: 40 pages, 30 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: YFB; YXZG. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 305 x 305 x 10. Weight in Grams: 826.
Cold, wet, and acidic, bogs appear to be extremely hostile to life, yet numerous plants and animals have adapted in fascinating ways in order to survive there. In Big Belching Bog, Phyllis Root lets us in on the secrets of the mysterious bog, describing such special inhabitants as plants that eat insects, bog lemmings, and frogs that stay frozen through the winter and thaw out in the spring. But what's that coming up from the bottom of the bog?
The biggest bog secret of all, we learn, is the remarkable process of methane gas belching out of the bog. ... Read more
Cold, wet, and acidic, bogs appear to be extremely hostile to life, yet numerous plants and animals have adapted in fascinating ways in order to survive there. In Big Belching Bog, Phyllis Root lets us in on the secrets of the mysterious bog, describing such special inhabitants as plants that eat insects, bog lemmings, and frogs that stay frozen through the winter and thaw out in the spring. But what's that coming up from the bottom of the bog?
The biggest bog secret of all, we learn, is the remarkable process of methane gas belching out of the bog. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
40
Condition
New
Number of Pages
40
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816633593
SKU
V9780816633593
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1
About Phyllis Root
Phyllis Root is the author of more than thirty books for children, including If You Want to See a Caribou and Big Momma Makes the World (winner of the Boston Globe Horn Book Award). Betsy Bowen is a Minnesota woodcut printmaker who illustrated Borealis, Great Wolf and the Good Woodsman, and Antler, Bear, Canoe: A Northwoods Alphabet Year, which ... Read more
Reviews for Big Belching Bog
"A beautiful thing. Big Belching Bog is a science book, really, but a science book wrapped in Root’s poetic words and Bowen’s unmistakable illustrations." —Star Tribune "Phyllis Root does a bang-up job of conveying pond-loads of information in short stanzas, walking readers comfortably through the flora, fauna, and science of bogs. The illustrations by Betsy Bowen reflect the tone and ... Read more