Andy Warner’s Oddball Histories: Spices and Spuds

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Andy Warner’s Oddball Histories: Spices and Spuds (Andy Warner’s Oddball Histories)
by Andy Warner

ISBN: 9780316498265
Hardcover, new

Brief Description:
New York Times bestselling author Andy Warner returns with a highly
entertaining, informative graphic novel that traces our ever-evolving
relationship with plants through time. Did you know that plants helped
shape our modern world? It may sound ridiculous, but empires have risen and
fallen because of stuff you’d find in your grocery store’s vegetable aisle.
Through wars, famine, prosperity, and more, every aspect of our lives and
livelihoods has something to do with plants! Whether or not you notice
them, plants are as central to our day-to-day lives as a bowl of rice or a
plate of pasta, and they have shaped our history the same way a gardener
trims a topiary. Did you know that a pepper blockade led to the Age of
Exploration? How about that huge wheat barges once kept Rome running with
free bread? Or that whole wars were fought over tea? Get ready to follow
corn’s weird journey from the floating fields of the Aztec emperors to the
glossy shine on this book’s cover. Andy Warner sifts through the roots and
leaves of our long, complicated history with the earth’s original green
resources in this hilarious, fact-filled follow-up to Andy Warner’s Oddball
Histories: Pests and Pets.

Target Age Group: Ages 8 to 12, Grades 3 to 7