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| View Larger Image | The Super Soybean
by Raymond Bial
| | List Price: | $16.95 | | Price: | $12.71 | | You Save: | $4.24 (25%) |  | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours | | | | | Sales Rank: | 403913 | | Studio: | Albert Whitman & Company | | | Binding: | Library Binding | | Reading Level: | Ages 9-12 | | Number Of Pages: | 40 | | Publication Date: | September 30, 2007 | | Publisher: | Albert Whitman & Company |
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(Ages 8-11) If there is any such thing as a "super" plant, that plant is the soybean. Used for an amazing variety of things-plastics, fuel, soap, and medicine-soybeans are also a healthy food source for animals and people. Award-winning photographer and children's book author Raymond Bial magnificently captures one of the world's most important plants. Readers will learn that the United States produces the most soybeans in the world-3 billion bushels a year. This photo-essay includes botanical information about the soybean, its interesting history, and a good description of the planting and harvesting of this super crop. Raymond Bial, who lives in Illinois, is a former librarian and author of many critically acclaimed books including, Portrait of a Farm Family, Amish Home, and Tenement: Immigrant Life on the Lower East Side. |
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An informed and informative educational account 
Written and photographed by award-winning author Raymond Bial, The Super Soybean teaches kids and young adults about the amazingly useful properties of the humble soybean, from food source to ingredient in fuel, plastics, soap, medicine, and more. The agricultural process of growing and harvesting soybeans, as well as the history of the soybean in American economics and culture, is also discussed. Featuring splendid, full-color photography on every page, The Super Soybean is an informed and informative educational account, ideal for young people who are ready for significantly more complex reading material than the average picturebook. Highly recommended.
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