内容简介：
Each of these beautiful books features a series of lavishly illustrated spreads that invite young readers to explore the inner workings of an animal or a plant, while providing an understanding of how they work as well as how they interact with the environment in which they live. Other topics included in this "inside-out" look at animal and plant life include their natural enemies, geographical range, evolutionary history, defensive techniques, and the relationship the subject plant or animal has to humans. The intricately detailed color drawings and stunning photos offer a dazzling tour of the circulatory, digestive, reproductive, and respiratory systems of each animal and plant covered. The reader-friendly text enhances and explains the striking images. Getting Into Nature is a rich and lavish introduction to the science, beauty, and wonder of nature, sure to create a new generation of nature lovers and science enthusiasts. Did you know that the turtle's top shell is an outgrowth of bone, and the scales on it are made of the same substance that forms our finger nails? Or that its nostrils are placed high on its head so that it can breathe without raising its head far above water? This fascinating book reveals these, and many little-known details about the turtle's body, inner working, geographical adaptations, genealogy, history, and endangered future.