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Books > Children's & Educational > Leisure interests, hobbies & sport > Hobbies, quizzes & games > Trivia & curious facts
All About Diwali: Things to Make and Do is the perfect celebration
gift! Diwali is one of India's most significant holidays. This
beautiful activity book book is filled with crafts and recipes, fun
activities and facts about the Diwali celebrations observed by over
ONE BILLION people across faiths. Read all about why Diwali is
named the festival of lights and discover the stories behind it.
The perfect activity book, children can: Create magical lanterns
Make a diya Put together diwali fan decorations Paint rangoli
patterns Make a diwali paper rocket Recipes include: Potato curry
Spiced rice with peas Milk peda Coconut burfi Almond halwa This is
the ULTIMATE book of Diwali fun! Also in the series:All About Eid:
Things to Make and Do
This charming reference introduces young readers to the wider world
by exploring languages, landscapes, weather, animals, capital
cities, mountains, deserts, and other landscapes and landforms, and
more. It encourages kids to get play with activities such as
creating a mini-rainforest in a bottle and singing a simple song in
Spanish. More than 100 colourful photos are paired with
kid-friendly and age-appropriate maps along with basic facts about
each continent. This book will quickly become a favourite at
Storytime, bedtime, or any other time.
Awesome information about the night sky is portrayed through one
hundred facts, fantastic images and fun cartoons. Discover how the
Sun, Moon and stars can be used to tell the time, find out how
telescopes work and explore the edge of the Universe.
Never before has it been so much fun for kids to put on their
thinking caps! Chat Pack for Kids[[ contains 156 cards, each one
featuring a question guaranteed to get creative juices flowing and
great conversations going. Simply pull out any card from the small
plastic box and let the big-time fun begin! Some samples: If you
could have any round object in the world, what would you choose?
Which musical instrument would best describe your personality? If
you could be one inch tall for a day, what specific place would you
most like to explore? Ideal for trips, mealtime,
bedtime/sleepovers, family gatherings, classroom activities, or
just having fun with friends! Hinged plastic box measures 3.5"W x
2.5"Lx1"H; box contains 156 stylized cards.
Did you know that fish sometimes cough, or that alligator teeth are
hollow? It's all weird ... but true!
The world can be a pretty
wacky place! Kids will have a blast exploring just HOW wacky in the
5th book in the wildly popular Weird But True series, full of 350
surprising and amazing facts. Topics include science, space,
weather, geography, food, pop culture, and just about everything
else under the sun, presented with fascinating photos and
illustrations. This quirky little reference book is so much fun,
kids forget they're learning.
Turn the wheel and see the life cycles of animals, birds and
insects in this interactive board book for babies and toddlers.
Watch Me Grow! is a delightful introduction to life cycles for very
young children just learning about the world around them. The book
includes rotating wheels that can be turned to reveal the stages in
five different life cycles: butterfly, ladybug, frog, bird, and
puppy. Bright photographs of real animals combined with charming
illustrations create pages that will instantly appeal to young
readers interested in nature and science! An exciting series of
early learning novelty board books that combine Scholastic's
strength in learning with beautiful photography and clear designs
to stimulate early learning. rounded edges, perfect for little ones
wheel mechanism aids finger dexterity
This is a book for all the curious kids whose parents won't let
them take apart the family's brand new digital camera. The stuff
around us has some pretty cool insides that we don't usually get to
see. That's why National Geographic Kids is dissecting all kinds of
things in How Things Work: Inside Out! Read along as we dissect,
explore, and explain how things do what they do. Complete with
exciting diagrams and illustrations, accessible explanations,
trivia, and fun features, How Things Work: Inside Out explains cell
phones, 3D printers, lava lamps, skyscrapers, and everything in
between.
Winner of the Children's Choice Book of the Year Award for grades
5-6
Did you know fortune cookies aren't even found in China? Or that
alligators don't actually live in the sewers of New York City? Want
to prove it to your friends? This book gives kids the tools to
break and bust wild and wacky myths from around the world. These
myths reveal a broad range of historical and scientific truths that
keep kids learning while interacting with their favorite fictional
"facts."
Chock full of colorful photographs and funny text, this book
includes hundreds of fascinating facts and interesting tidbits that
prove you can't believe everything you're told. Each busted myth
also features an explanation of where it originated, which uncovers
often surprising historical significance. So next time someone
tells you that the average person accidentally ingests 8 spiders
each year--don't tell them that if they believe that they are as
dumb as an ox--because oxen are actually quite smart.
Think you know everything there is to know about your favourite
online stars? Prove it! The perfect challenge for anyone who spends
every spare minute searching for videos from their favourite
vloggers - packed with quick quiz questions to help you sort a
Sprinkle of Glitter from ThatcherJoe. Readers will love this
colourful, family friendly book from the team that brought you Vlog
It! Vlog On... and The Vlog It Yearbook.
Get ready to be grossed out - in a good way! This latest addition
to the crazy popular Weird but True series is slimy and sticky and
jam-packed with more icky, zany fun! Step up to the plate and try
not to lose your lunch, with 300 all-new, amazing facts plus photos
that kids just can't get enough of.
It's fun to be a kid, but are you ready for what comes next?
Challenge yourself with these 100 things and you will be!
Jam-packed with tips, tricks, and skills that every kid should
master before turning 18, this is the ultimate guide to becoming a
fun-loving, well-rounded, totally competent and confident young
person. Complete with expert advice from real life explorers,
adventurers, and masters of their craft, it's perfect for
jump-starting an amazing life!
A brand new series from the home of humour for children! Inventions
is all about weird, wild and frankly bonkers inventions. Some that
never made out of the inventor's brain, some that never made it off
the drawing board and some that really shouldn't have made it but
did!
The book contains a total of 501 facts which make the reader wonder
about our strange but truly fascinating world. The success of this
book underlines the growing realisation that books now are no
longer looked upon something as having necessarily a direct link to
classroom and examination-and in consequence, to be shelved when
the need is over. With exciting facts from different fields the
book stimulates young reader's interest in the world around
him-thus inspiring him to pursue knowledge purely for the sake of
it. In turn it also helps to develop logical thinking and a
scientific temperament.
Find out how the pope got confused with a potato, about the
footballer who ate the ref's notebook and why it is a terrible idea
to have your name and date of birth tattooed on your neck, in this
splendid romp through the most impressive mistakes, blunders,
misunderstandings, faux pas, howlers and universal truths that are
not true at all, from the magnificently witty pen of Mr Philip
Ardagh. 'Who else but Philip Ardagh could bring you such an
enjoyable compendium of buffoonery? "Howlers, Blunders and Random
Mistakery" is essential, laugh-out-loud reading' - "The
Independent".
Get ready to have your mind blown with these jaw-dropping facts and
visual comparisons about the human body! Packed with incredible
stats and facts about the human body that will leave you and your
family utterly amazed. The perfect book for kids and adults who
love science, biology, or any weird, wonderful and gruesome facts.
Do you want to impress your family and friends with mind-boggling
information? Well, now you can. Inside the pages of this
educational book, you'll find: - 1,000 amazing facts about the
human body - Stunning images help explain big numbers relating to
facts about the body so that children can understand - Fast fact
science boxes that are illustrated with engaging info-graphics to
cover essential info on how the body works - Amazing pictures
magnified many times show you parts of the body as you've never
seen them before - Simple, easy-to-understand secondary artworks
which make the main images on each spread the stars of the show -
Fun, accessible text suitable for ages 9+ - and fascinating
information for adults too! Did you know that Chimpanzee skin has
the same number of hairs as humans? Or that you regrow your outer
layer of skin 700 times in your lifetime! Or that your DNA can
stretch to the sun and back - not once - but 16 times? If these
facts have already blown your mind, then wait until you read all
1000 facts! Discover unbelievable facts about your body, with
enough blood and guts to satisfy even the most curious kids. It
Can't Be True! Human Body! is filled with bite-size, fascinating
nuggets of information about the incredible abilities of human
bodies. Compelling, computer-generated images (CGIs) reveal just
how impressive your body is. It's the perfect addition to any
family or classroom bookshelf!
Celebrate twenty years of cinematic magic imagining your first year
at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry! What would it be
like to ride on the Hogwarts Express from King's Cross station,
shop in Diagon Alley, be sorted into one of the four Hogwarts
houses, attend a Potions class and try out for Quidditch? Packed
with fun activities and pictures from the eight Harry Potter films
Includes an 8-page fold-out Hogwarts Diary Plus full-page character
posters. Anything can happen at Hogwarts!
At last, all those weird but true facts that kids love so much are
collected in this fun-tastic set of three compact, easy to handle
and fun to browse books. Wacky facts, fascinating information, and
lively art combine to make these books irresistible brain candy for
young readers. Kids will have so much fun that they won't even
realize they're learning! Did you know that peanut butter can be
converted into a diamond, that a sneeze travels 100 miles an hour,
or that a sheep, a duck, and a rooster were the first passengers on
a hot-air balloon? The creators of National Geographic Kids, the
nation's most popular kids' magazine present Weird but True, 300
wacky, wild, mind-bending facts about everything on Earth and
beyond. Animals, food, science, pop culture, outer space,
geography, weather, and more! Trivia that will so wow your family
and friends that you won't be able to stop turning the pages of
this brainteasing treat. Did you know that you have the same number
of neck bones as a giraffe, that Mount Everest is 27 times taller
than the Eiffel Tower, or that rats can burp? Find wilder and
wacker trivia about everything above, plus amazing feats, pets,
toys, money, and more in Weird but True 2! Did you know that
dolphins sleep with one eye open, or that meteorites the size of
basketballs land on Earth about once a month? Find even wilder and
wackier trivia about everything above, plus crazy inventions, the
human body, and more in Weird but True 3!
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