13½ Incredible Things You Need to Know About Everything
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Published by DK Children
"This is an excellent book for all primary aged school children"
"A very enjoyable read with eye popping pictures and jaw dropping facts to match"
"Lovely and colourful with lots of bite size facts for children to enjoy"
"This book is fantastic my nine year old has not put it down"
"This is such an interesting book for children and adults alike. Great, colourful illustrations... I enjoyed reading this as much as my grandson did. I would recommend this for kids of all ages as there are so many different facts (and myth busters!)"
"A great book for any fact loving child"
"DK Books have done it again, another blockbuster book packed with the most incredible information about the most spectacular amount of topics... a real treasure trove of mind blowing curiosities"
About 13½ Incredible Things You Need to Know About Everything
Learn something about everything with 13 mind-blowing facts plus a little myth-buster about every topic under (and including) the Sun!
Exploded images of everyday objects, from cars and skeletons to pianos and chocolate, will take you on an incredible factual adventure. Did you know that one in every four animals on Earth is a beetle? Were you aware that white chocolate isn't technically chocolate? Or that the dwarf planet Pluto is so small that two of it could sit side-by-side across the USA?
13½ Incredible Things You Need to Know About Everything includes over 1000 facts on 80 different subjects to satisfy your thirst for knowledge.
Familiar objects - the Earth, a tiger, an Apollo spacesuit, a scorpion - are exploded to reveal their extraordinary insides. Surprising myth-busters will give you lots of new favourite facts, such as chameleons change colour to stand out not blend in and that on sharks on average only kill 6 people annually while people kill 100 million sharks a year!
Awesome images will draw you into 13½ Incredible Things You Need to Know About Everything and irresistible and fascinating information will keep you there.