Nature Did it First!
- ISBN-10
- 0761324135
- ISBN-13
- 9780761324133
- Category
- Juvenile Nonfiction
- Pages
- 23
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003-01-01
- Publisher
- Millbrook Press
- Author
- Susan E. Goodman
Description
Photographs provide examples of human inventions that have been borrowed from nature, and readers are asked to guess the connection with nature before turning the page to see the answer.
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