This book was recognised in the Eve Pownall Award for Information Books category by the Children's Book Council of Australia Awards.

This book features in the following series: Picture Puffin Fact, Puffin Originals .

There are 32 pages in this book. This book was published 1996 by Penguin Books Ltd .

Marjorie Crosby-Fairall is a designer and freelance illustrator of 7 previous children's books. A dual citizen of Australia and the USA, Marjorie was raised on a farm in California with a menagerie of rescued animals. She devoured picture books as a child, examining the detail of their illustrations. Her books have appeared on the Premier's Reading Challenge lists, and she won the CBCA Eve Pownall Award for her first picture book.

This book has the following chapters: Plants that eat meat!; how carnivorous plants trap their prey; venus fly traps; sundews; Albany pitcher plants; tall pitcher plants; cobra lilies; monkey cups; butterworts; bladderworts; how big are they?; where in the world?; growing carnivorous plants at home; botanical names.