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|  | Author: Amy Stewart
Creator: Briony Morrow-Cribbs
Publisher: Algonquin Books
List Price: $18.95
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Rating:  29 reviews
Sales Rank: 709
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Pages: 223
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.5 x 0.9
ISBN: 1565126831
Dewey Decimal Number: 581.65
EAN: 9781565126831
ASIN: 1565126831
Publication Date: May 21, 2009
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 Interesting book September 20, 2009
N. Anderson (TX United States)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I enjoyed this book. It is interesting and could help you prevent your children and pets from getting into plants that would make them ill.
Good September 14, 2009
Reader (Michigan)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Having read Harry Potter I was suprised to see the same plants mentioned in this book. I enjoyed it
 Wickedly Entertaining September 12, 2009
ms_truthseeker (Los Angeles)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
As plant person on a mission to convince people that plants are not only essential to our lives but also fascinating, this book is a terrific treasure trove of information. You could read it cover to cover (and it is a lively, entertaining read) or leave it on your desk or coffee table and browse through the chapters at leisure. It is not a botany text book, so the information it provides is limited in scope, but it's just a matter of Googling around to find out more. Also, it's artful design makes it a lovely gift.
Eerily curious September 12, 2009
Edith Kurie (Huntersville, NC USA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
For plant lovers this book illustrates some surprising toxins. For writers it may bring about new ideas for an interesting mystery. No recipes, fortunately. Something for every plant hobbyists' library.
What You Don't Know About Plants Can Kill You, Make You High, Get You Arrested, and Bring Excrutiating Pain September 10, 2009
Professor Donald Mitchell (Boston)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
"I went past the field of the sluggard,
past the vineyard of the man who lacks judgment;
thorns had come up everywhere,
the ground was covered with weeds,
and the stone wall was in ruins." -- Proverbs 24:30-31
Wicked Plants is a great combination of helpful information about harmful plants and good story telling. Both are valuable to people who wouldn't know one plant from another if they fell into them (until stuck full of thorns or inadvertently poisoned).
When I visit people for the first time who have small children and pets, I'm always astonished to see rooms and yards full of poisonous plants located where they are easily available to inquiring mouths and teeth. When I point out the problem, the so-called adults usually tell me that I can't be right. A few minutes on the Internet quickly causes a major plant remodeling of the house and yard.
I've also walked full of yards filled with marijuana plants being cultivated by the youngsters in the family while the parents remain blissfully ignorant of their crop's potential.
This book will help you overcome any such ignorance that you have.
But I do have a caution: If whoever prepares your food isn't too happy with you, don't leave this book lying around . . . it's full of potentially lethal advice for poisoning you.
The book's main weakness is that if you don't already know these plants you may not be able to recognize them from the drawings. I suggest you look up color photographs on the Internet as you read the books.
Well done, Ms. Stewart!
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