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How Not to Get Eaten

More than 75 Incredible Animal Defenses
By Josette Reeves
Series: Wonders of Wildlife
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How Not to Get Eaten by Josette Reeves is an adventurous children's book that combines fun storytelling with valuable lessons in wilderness survival. The tale follows young characters as they navigate through a variety of habitats, learning clever tricks and tips to avoid becoming a tasty snack for predators. It's an engaging and educational journey through the animal kingdom, perfect for curious young readers.
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You might enjoy this book if you're curious about the ingenious ways creatures evade predators in the wild. With captivating illustrations and fascinating facts, it sparks an interest in nature and science, appealing particularly to young animal enthusiasts.

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An in-depth look at the many clever, creative, and crazy ways that animals protect themselves from predators.

For many animals, life is a constant battle to stay off a predator's menu. This book explores lots of cunning ways they avoid being eaten. From camouflage and colour-changing, natural armour, playing dead, great escapes, detachable body parts, and impressive ways of fighting back, the range of survival tactics in the natural world is quite astonishing (and sometimes pretty disgusting).

How Not to Get Eaten is a brilliant introduction to the ingenious anti-predator strategies in the natural world. Meet caterpillars who pretend to be scary snakes, geckos who lose their skin to stay alive, trees that team up with ants to fight off elephants, and more!

Perfect for children aged 7-9, the book is filled with intriguing illustrations and spectacular photographs of the amazing, obscure, and incredibly strange. You'll never look at nature the same way again!

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  • How Not to Get Eaten
    An in-depth look at the many clever, creative, and crazy ways that animals protect themselves from predators. For many animals, life is a constant battle to stay off a predator's menu. This book explores lots of cunning ways they avoid being eaten. From camouflage and colour-changing, natural armour, playing dead, great escapes, detachable body parts, and impressive ways of fighting...
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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780241538456

Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 05 May 2022

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: DK Children

Contributors:

  • Illustrated by Asia Orlando
  • Illustrated by Asia Orlando

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 14.0mm

Width: 225.0mm

Height: 284.0mm

Weight: 626g

Pages: 80

Collections

Children's Books Children’s & Teenage Non-Fiction Children’s, Teenage and Educational Josette Reeves Penguin Books Series: Wonders of Wildlife

About the Author

Josette Reeves is a nature-loving writer and editor from Lancashire, UK. Her first book was Got to Dance, a story about a dancing monkey. This is her debut non-fiction book, and is a tad more scientific. She also writes short stories and articles for children's magazines. Asia Orlando is an Illustrator and Digital Artist currently based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Asia has a Master's degree in Fine Arts and Design, and is the founder of the illustration movement #ourplanetweek, created in 2020 to engage the community of artists around the world, aiming to communicate environmental awareness through art.

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