This illustrated nonfiction picture book explores the unique and disgusting ways plants protect themselves.

Erin Silver is a children's author and freelance writer whose work has appeared in everything from Good Housekeeping to the Washington Post. She is the author of numerous books for children, including Rush Hour in the Orca Footprints series, Good Food, Bad Waste, In It to Win It and All Consuming in the Orca Think series, as well as What Kids Did, Proud to Play and Mighty Scared. Erin holds a master of fine arts in creative nonfiction from the University of King's College in Halifax, a postgraduate journalism degree from Toronto Metropolitan University and a bachelor of arts from the University of Toronto.