Just like us! Plants, written by Bridget Heos, reviewed by Anneliese White

Summary: How can something without a mouth that seems inanimate, actually communicate and be similar to humans? In Just Like Us! Plants, readers will learn all about how plants have a lot of similar behaviors to us, and are living creatures. It features important explanations about photosynthesis and transpiration, but also features fun facts like how the Australian Christmas tree steals water from neighboring trees like the Grinch, how the Venus flytrap is actually a meat eater, and about a plant called the dead horse arum lily looks and smells like rotting flesh! Heos also covers how plant babies (seeds) are born and grow to be adults. Readers will delight in the riveting plant facts and probably never look at them the same way again! 

Straight Talk for Librarians: Another great book in the Just Like Us! series, this time author Heos takes readers on an informational journey about plants. Well organized and structured, and filled with captivating illustrations, it does a great job of balancing fun trivia with important information. This would definitely be a must have for the way it covers the background and science of how plants function, but also how it inserts funny and captivating facts about specific plants around the world. Like the others in the series, it also features a dictionary and bibliography at the end which is always a positive find in a non-fiction selection.