Vicious Veg

Horrible Science Series

Author: Nick Arnold

Illustrator: Tony De Saulles

Book 8 in the Horrible Science series

Pages: 176

Published: 1998

Age: 8+

This award-winning series looks at the nastier side of science. In Vicious Veg, find out when a fruit is really a vegetable, how plants keep us from suffocating and what stops trees from falling over.

About the Horrible Science Series

Reading age: 8+ years

Welcome to the explosive world of Horrible Science! It's science with the squishy bits left in.

Most people think that science is serious. Seriously dreary, seriously brain-dead and seriously boring. But most people are wrong. Science isn't boring - it's horrible! And when science is horrible it comes to life in an exciting way . . .