Nature's Rule Breakers
Creatures That Don't Fit In

People love to fit things into “boxes” or categories because such generalizations are comfortable and make everything so much easier! Scientists are no different and they spend time putting animals into a groups such as using lungs or gills to breathe. But the Australian Lungfish has both and the Re......more

What a knock-out nonfiction book! This is the kind of nonfiction kids will love. NATURE’S RULE BREAKERS packs fascinating facts in an intriguing, kid friendly comic-book-style design with a question/answer format to highlight some of Earth’s most interesting, rule breaking creatures. I love how it p......more

Scientists love to sort animals into categories - warm blooded or cold blooded, fresh water or saltwater - but not all animals can be neatly placed in one or the other. This book is full of fascinating examples of the creatures that defy tidy categorization. Did you know that clown fish can change g......more

What a fabulous non-fiction picture book! We all like to label and categorize things to make sense of the world. This book highlights the outliers, the fascinating animals and plants don't all fit easily into our imposed boxes. It's a lovely biological challenge to black and white thinking that's so......more

With gorgeous photos and a digestible format, Nature’s Rule Breakers is a terrific introduction to biological categories and examples of living things that don’t fall neatly into those categories. Of course, scientific phylogeny is much more complex than the groupings that the general public uses bu......more