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Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Another year of amazing world records and all the latest and greatest pop culture crazes!Where can you find the world's deadliest frog?Which athlete holds the record for most Olympic medals won by an individual EVER? What state has the biggest collection of T-rex fossils? Who has more Instagram Grumpy Cat or Selena Gomez? This book is packed with the answers to these questions and MORE! Read all about the biggest, best, and most buzzworthy world records...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Challenge yourself, challenge your friends. Or make it official and host a night of fun, enlightening, and hilarious trivia. The pub quiz is a cultural institution, and bartender Austin Rogers is singularly good at it, not only as the long-time host of a hugely popular New York City quiz night, but also as a 12-time Jeopardy! champion whose earnings of over $400,000 are the seventh highest in the show's history. He knows a whole of just about everything,...
Author
Publisher
National Geographic Kids
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"This charming reference book zeroes in on location, location, location. More than 200 colorful photos are paired with age-appropriate text featuring answers to questions like, "Where does the sky end?" "Where is the highest mountain?" and, "Where was ice cream invented?" Containing several kid-friendly maps designed to expand the learning experience, this book inspires kids to be curious, ask questions, and explore the world around them"--
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Language
English
Description
"A winning portrait of America at its weirdest." — Publishers Weekly STARRED Review
From the shrouded forests of the Pacific Northwest to off-the-wall cryptozoological conventions, one man searches high and low for the answer to the question: real or not, why do we want to believe?
Bigfoot is an instantly recognizable figure. Through the decades, this elusive primate has been featured in movies and
...Author
Publisher
Bright Matter Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Are there volcanoes in space? Which is faster, a cheetah or a greyhound? And what's the real reason that Major League Baseball umpires only wear black underwear? Discover the answers to these questions and more in the newest installment in this kid-friendly series packed with fun, fascinating Q&As! Got a random question? This book has the answer! Packed with surprising facts and colorful photos, Totally Random Questions, Volume 3 presents snack-sized...
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: Can pigeons do math? How long would it take to drive to the moon? What happens when a seahorse gets angry? Discover the answers to these questions and more in this kid-friendly book of fun, fascinating Q&As!
Author
Publisher
Bright Matter Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Are there volcanoes in space? Which is faster, a cheetah or a greyhound? And what's the real reason that Major League Baseball umpires only wear black underwear? Discover the answers to these questions and more in the newest installment in this kid-friendly series packed with fun, fascinating Q&As! Got a random question? This book has the answer! Packed with surprising facts and colorful photos, Totally Random Questions, Volume 3 presents snack-sized...
Author
Publisher
Bright Matter Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Are there volcanoes in space? Which is faster, a cheetah or a greyhound? And what's the real reason that Major League Baseball umpires only wear black underwear? Discover the answers to these questions and more in the newest installment in this kid-friendly series packed with fun, fascinating Q&As! Got a random question? This book has the answer! Packed with surprising facts and colorful photos, Totally Random Questions, Volume 3 presents snack-sized...
Author
Publisher
Bright Matter Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
DID YOU KNOW? Male seahorses give birth, not females. Hershey's kisses used to be square. Squid have nine brains--and the central one's shaped like a donut, with a hole in the middle! Even MORE fantastic facts and incredible images come to life in the second volume of the kid-favorite TOTALLY RANDOM FACTS series. Totally random facts series
Author
Publisher
Portable Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"This book will not only answer plenty of the questions that you knew you had but will also open your eyes to lots of things that you've probably never even thought about. It's an absorbing read that ranges wide-twelve chapters deal with both the very large (cosmology) and the very small (viruses). Each chapter consists of succinct question-led entries, along with a quiz and some speedy standalone facts for instant "Who knew?" reactions"--
15) The encyclopedia of the weird and wonderful: curious and incredible facts that will blow your mind
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Discover a plethora of intriguing and entertaining facts from archaeology and history-brought to life with clever illustrations and full-color and design.
In “The Encyclopedia of the Weird and Wonderful”, TikTok educator and Youtuber Milo Rossi presents an assortment of funny and detailed anecdotes of some of the more quotidian mysteries of life, such as:
• Why do people wear wedding bands on their left hand?
• What stew can you eat today...
Author
Publisher
Autumn Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A photographic encyclopedia of the utterly mind-blowing, from record-breaking animals to earth-shattering natural phenomena and the secrets between the stars. Did you know there's a river so hot it could boil you alive? Or that there really are dragons on Earth? What about the man who survived seven lightning strikes? Discover the most extraordinary, impossibly possible, and totally true facts about our weird and wonderful world. From the deepest...
Author
Publisher
Beascoa
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Español
Description
La primera recopilación de cuentos ilustrados para conocer el mundo a través de la filosofía, explicada como nunca antes se había explicado, a pequeños y mayores. ¿Quiénes somos? ¿Cómo deberíamos entender a los demás? ¿Qué es lo que nos ayuda a ser felices? Y aún más importante, ¿cuándo es necesario empezar a hacernos estas preguntas? El mundo según Lea es un maravilloso álbum ilustrado en el que Lea, una niña muy curiosa, hace...
Author
Language
English
Description
Why are we here? Do ghosts exist? Will we ever travel back in time? Are we being visited by extraterrestrials? Will we ever talk to animals? Are we being told the truth? Are mysterious creatures roaming the Earth? And why, when you're in the shower, does the shower curtain always billow in towards you? We don't know the answers to any of these questions (that includes the shower-curtain one, which is a mystery that has eluded scientists for decades,...
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: Discover Earth’s strangest animals, natural formations, festivals, ancient wonders, news, and more in this newest addition to the wildly popular Weird But True! family―an annual compendium of everything Weird But True! fans love ... and then some. Readers will journey across the seven continents, dive into the ocean, and even blast off into space to discover a whole wide world of weird. From the troll doll bug of Suriname...
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