Author: Kate Hale
Illustrator: Andy Smith
Ages: 8+ years
Price: £8.99
Format: Paperback
Extent: 208 pages
Trim size: 207 x 153 mm
Pub date: 1st Aug 2024
ISBN: 9781804661611
Author Kate Hale is a writer, editor and professional fun fact finder. She has been the executive editor for National Geographic Kids’ Books as well as the co-creator and host of the award-winning kids’ radio program, the Weird But True! show. When she’s not hunting for new facts, Kate enjoys gardening, video games and road trips.
Illustrator
Andy Smith is an award-winning illustrator, who studied illustration at the University of Brighton and the Royal College of Art, London. His work combines illustration and typography to create images that have humour, energy and optimism with a handmade, hand-printed and tactile feel. When not working, Andy can be found in the studio screen printing books and posters.
‘Choose your own path through a wonderland of amazing, exciting and sometimes downright silly facts.’
The Week Junior Science+Nature
‘A wonderful compendium of facts… Fantastic fun for curious children aged 8+.’
The English Association
‘[An] ideal resource for children to dip into.’
The School Reading List
ISBN 978-1-80466-161-1
Welcome to FACTopia! A wonderland of crazily connected facts.
• Paperback edition of the original, bestselling FACTopia!
• Every one of the 400 facts in the book is connected in fun and surprising ways.
• You can follow the trail or choose your own path through these facts!
• Covers a vast range of topics, including space, bones, dinosaurs, spiders, crocodiles, robots, kings and queens, pharaohs and more.
• Features more than 300 fabulously witty colour illustrations and photographs.
• Every fact has been verified by the experts at Britannica.
• This is the first of 8 books in the dynamic FACTopia! series.
• The series in hardback has sold over 170,000 copies so far.
Did you know that a squid has a brain shaped like a doughnut? Or that some butterflies drink turtle tears? Every Britannica-verified fact in the book is connected to the next in an ingenious trail of information. Hop from topic to topic in unexpected and hilarious ways, and discover extraordinary facts about a huge variety of topics. But there’s not just one trail through these pages: sometimes your path branches and you can choose to jump to a totally different (but still connected) part of the book. Discover where your curiosity will take you!
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