Step 4), Hungry Plants (Step-into-Reading

Lucas (4) and Lilah (3) request this book before nap and and bedtime every day/night. I had no idea they would like it sooo much. It's really fun to read and provides lots of interesting information. Thanks to this book, our kids know the difference between active and passive carnivorous plants, they know who Charles Darwin is and more. What a pleasant surprise this book was.

i bought this as recommend when I bought my venus fly trap plant. it is a 2nd grade reader and has no value to an adult as a reference for growing fly traps. i'm sure a fine book with pictures for elementary school remedial reading class.

i bought this as recommend when I bought my venus fly trap plant. it is a 2nd grade reader and has no value to an adult as a reference for growing fly traps. i'm sure a fine book with pictures for elementary school remedial reading class.

An introduction to the various types of carnivorous plants and how they trap their prey.

This is a beginning reader chapter book. It gives a very decent overview of the types of carnivorous plants and how each one gets its food. Occasional specific species are mentioned, but mostly it talks about the plants in broad categories. Definitely a higher interest plant read for lower grades.

Hungry Plants
Author: Mary Batten
Reviewed By:Brianna - a Stockbridge Central School 3rd Grader
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Did you know that some plants can actually eat bugs!?
It's true! There are more than 600 kinds of bug eating plants in the word. In this book Hungry Plants you will learn about all kinds of insect- eating plants. Did you know Borneo is home to the biggest pitcher plants in the world!? Insect -eating plants don't have eyes so how does a Venus fly trap know when a bug is in there mouth? When a fly or any other small insect, crawls on to a Venus fly trap's leaf, it touches a tiny hair. Then the fly touches another hair these little hairs are triggers that signals to the plants that dinner is here!! There is not a lot of text and through out the book there is narration it's easy to read and interesting. The illustrations are very detailed and are interesting. They're almost like photographs. I recommend this book to people who love plants that eat bugs or any body who would like to learn about hungry plants. So read the book or you'll be missing out!!!

CAUTION: This book teaches evolution as fact and praises Darwin as a scientist.

I had ordered this as a gift for my nephew's birthday to coincide with a Venus Flytrap plant. At first glance, I thought this would be a good addition. However, after I already ordered and had it sent to their house, I discovered later upon the "Look Inside" that one of the pages was referring to the lie of evolution. I quickly emailed my sister-in-law to let her know that when the package arrived at their house, to please get rid of the book, and I would send a different one in its place. She inspected the book further upon arrival and said another part talked about Darwin. I'm thankful I noticed this before my nephew received it as a gift. I instead ordered some wonderful books from Answers in Genesis to coincide with his gift and also a great Moody Science Classic DVD called "Prior Claim" which teaches about carnivorous plants.

I'm disappointed that the lie of evolution is being incorporated into children's early reading books as fact. We do not buy into the 150 year old lie that is taught as scientific truth these days. We are putting our faith in the true, holy, infallible, inspired Word of God, not in some recent manmade falsehood. The Bible clearly teaches that God created our universe and everything in it (plants on Day 3 - Genesis 1:11-13).

We try to be careful in our screening of books and media for our family. We do teach our children what the educational system teaches about evolution, but we do so in light of God's truth with a biblical worldview. We want them to know what is being taught only so they can better defend the truth and be better equipped to not be swayed by any wind of doctrine that comes from man's ideas.

One last thought for good use of of this book ~ it could be used as a teaching opportunity about how evolution (an unsupported theory) is being indoctrinated into our culture as fact to the most vulnerable of age groups. Maybe it could be used as an example to guide children to have good discernment and critical thinking skills.

Be careful what you let your little ones read!