Author: Mitchell Symons
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1448121647
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
Did you know THAT: The first ready-to-eat breakfast cereal was Shredded Wheat in 1893 (it beat Kellogg's Corn Flakes by just five years) Scarlett Johansson, Ashton Kutcher and Simon Cowell all have twin brothers. Everton were the first British football club to introduce a stripe down the side of their shorts. The word DUDE was coined by Oscar Wilde and his friends. It is a combination of the words 'duds' and 'attitude'. Well you do now! Filled with fantastic facts and figures to amaze and intrigue . . . once you start reading you'll be hooked for hours!
How to Avoid a Wombat's Bum
Author: Mitchell Symons
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1448121647
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
Did you know THAT: The first ready-to-eat breakfast cereal was Shredded Wheat in 1893 (it beat Kellogg's Corn Flakes by just five years) Scarlett Johansson, Ashton Kutcher and Simon Cowell all have twin brothers. Everton were the first British football club to introduce a stripe down the side of their shorts. The word DUDE was coined by Oscar Wilde and his friends. It is a combination of the words 'duds' and 'attitude'. Well you do now! Filled with fantastic facts and figures to amaze and intrigue . . . once you start reading you'll be hooked for hours!
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1448121647
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
Did you know THAT: The first ready-to-eat breakfast cereal was Shredded Wheat in 1893 (it beat Kellogg's Corn Flakes by just five years) Scarlett Johansson, Ashton Kutcher and Simon Cowell all have twin brothers. Everton were the first British football club to introduce a stripe down the side of their shorts. The word DUDE was coined by Oscar Wilde and his friends. It is a combination of the words 'duds' and 'attitude'. Well you do now! Filled with fantastic facts and figures to amaze and intrigue . . . once you start reading you'll be hooked for hours!
Why Do Farts Smell Like Rotten Eggs?
Author: Mitchell Symons
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 140909605X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
EVER WONDERED . . . Why we burp? What a wotsit is? Whether lemmings really jump off cliffs? Why vomit always contains carrots? And why do farts smell like rotten eggs? No subject is too strange and no trivia too tough for Mitchell Symons, who has the answer to these crazy questions, and many more.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 140909605X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
EVER WONDERED . . . Why we burp? What a wotsit is? Whether lemmings really jump off cliffs? Why vomit always contains carrots? And why do farts smell like rotten eggs? No subject is too strange and no trivia too tough for Mitchell Symons, who has the answer to these crazy questions, and many more.
Why Spacemen Can't Burp...
Author: Mitchell Symons
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1446479315
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
The latest collection of terrific trivia from the bestselling author of WHY EATING BOGEYS IS GOOD FOR YOU and double Blue Peter Best Book with Facts Award winner. The answers to these incredible questions will boggle your brain! Can rocks have snot? Why do doughnuts have holes in the middle? Could a human child ever be raised by animals? What have hyenas got to laugh about? And why is it impossible to belch after blast-off?!
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1446479315
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
The latest collection of terrific trivia from the bestselling author of WHY EATING BOGEYS IS GOOD FOR YOU and double Blue Peter Best Book with Facts Award winner. The answers to these incredible questions will boggle your brain! Can rocks have snot? Why do doughnuts have holes in the middle? Could a human child ever be raised by animals? What have hyenas got to laugh about? And why is it impossible to belch after blast-off?!
How Much Poo Does an Elephant Do?
Author: Mitchell Symons
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1448121639
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Let Mitchell Symons be your guide into the weird and wonderful world of trivia. Camels are born without humps. Walt Disney, creator of Mickey Mouse, was scared of mice. Only 30% of humans can flare their nostrils A group of twelve or more cows is called a flink And an elephant produces an eye-wateringly pongy 20 kilos of dung a day!
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1448121639
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Let Mitchell Symons be your guide into the weird and wonderful world of trivia. Camels are born without humps. Walt Disney, creator of Mickey Mouse, was scared of mice. Only 30% of humans can flare their nostrils A group of twelve or more cows is called a flink And an elephant produces an eye-wateringly pongy 20 kilos of dung a day!
Why Eating Bogeys is Good for You
Author: Mitchell Symons
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1448121477
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
EVER WONDERED . . . Why we have tonsils? Is there any cream in cream crackers? Why is the sea blue? And if kangaroos keep their babies in their pouches, what happens to all the poo?! Mitch Symons answers all these crazy questions and plenty more in this wonderfully funny and addictive book for children from 8 to 80! And yes, eating bogeys is good for you . . . but only your own!
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1448121477
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
EVER WONDERED . . . Why we have tonsils? Is there any cream in cream crackers? Why is the sea blue? And if kangaroos keep their babies in their pouches, what happens to all the poo?! Mitch Symons answers all these crazy questions and plenty more in this wonderfully funny and addictive book for children from 8 to 80! And yes, eating bogeys is good for you . . . but only your own!
Why You Need a Passport When You're Going to Puke
Author: Mitchell Symons
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1409096513
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
DID YOU KNOW . . . Square watermelons are sold in Japan? There is a River Piddle in Dorset? Americans use enough toilet paper daily to wrap around the world nine times? Mitchell Symons goes global - join him on his fun fact-finding world tour!
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1409096513
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
DID YOU KNOW . . . Square watermelons are sold in Japan? There is a River Piddle in Dorset? Americans use enough toilet paper daily to wrap around the world nine times? Mitchell Symons goes global - join him on his fun fact-finding world tour!
That's So Gross!: Creepy Crawlies
Author: Mitchell Symons
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1409014576
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
GO MAD FOR MINIBEASTS! Discover the answers to top trivia such as: Does the dung beetle really stink? Why are caterpillars so muscly? Why would fleas be champion high-jumpers? Includes cool collector cards to swap with your mates.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1409014576
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
GO MAD FOR MINIBEASTS! Discover the answers to top trivia such as: Does the dung beetle really stink? Why are caterpillars so muscly? Why would fleas be champion high-jumpers? Includes cool collector cards to swap with your mates.
The Eye of the Crocodile
Author: Val Plumwood
Publisher: ANU E Press
ISBN: 1922144177
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Val Plumwood was an eminent environmental philosopher and activist who was prominent in the development of radical ecophilosophy from the early 1970s until her death in 2008. Her book Feminism and the Mastery of Nature (1992) has become a classic. In 1985 she was attacked by a crocodile while kayaking alone in the Kakadu national park in the Northern Territory. She was death rolled three times before being released from the crocodile’s jaws. She crawled for hours through swamp with appalling injuries before being rescued. The experience made her well placed to write about cultural responses to death and predation. The first section of The Eye of the Crocodile consists of chapters intended for a book on crocodiles that remained unfinished at the time of Val’s death. The remaining chapters are previously published papers brought together to form an overview of Val’s ideas on death, predation and nature.
Publisher: ANU E Press
ISBN: 1922144177
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Val Plumwood was an eminent environmental philosopher and activist who was prominent in the development of radical ecophilosophy from the early 1970s until her death in 2008. Her book Feminism and the Mastery of Nature (1992) has become a classic. In 1985 she was attacked by a crocodile while kayaking alone in the Kakadu national park in the Northern Territory. She was death rolled three times before being released from the crocodile’s jaws. She crawled for hours through swamp with appalling injuries before being rescued. The experience made her well placed to write about cultural responses to death and predation. The first section of The Eye of the Crocodile consists of chapters intended for a book on crocodiles that remained unfinished at the time of Val’s death. The remaining chapters are previously published papers brought together to form an overview of Val’s ideas on death, predation and nature.
How to Scratch a Wombat
Author: Jackie French
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618868643
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
What's the best way to scratch a wombat? In this cross between memoir and natural history, French shares her often hilarious adventures with her wombat neighbors in Australia and describes their physiology, history, and habits. Illustrations.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618868643
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
What's the best way to scratch a wombat? In this cross between memoir and natural history, French shares her often hilarious adventures with her wombat neighbors in Australia and describes their physiology, history, and habits. Illustrations.
That's So Gross!: Human Body
Author: Mitchell Symons
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1409014630
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
NOXIOUS NOISES AND STINKY SMELLS . . . Amaze your mates with top trivia such as: Why do we puke and sweat? Which tribe uses farting as a greeting? How likely are you to be injured by a toilet seat?
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1409014630
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
NOXIOUS NOISES AND STINKY SMELLS . . . Amaze your mates with top trivia such as: Why do we puke and sweat? Which tribe uses farting as a greeting? How likely are you to be injured by a toilet seat?