Kategoria BISAC: Juvenile Nonfiction >> Curiosities & Wonders

Can you detect a hoax from the real deal? See right through photo trickery? Spot the phony logic in a story in seconds? Put your sleuthing skills to work in this fun book See if you can find the truth behind bizarre stories, faulty facts, iffy lists, news headlines, and more.

Does the world's largest mushroom (a humongous fungus ) really cover a space the size of 1,665 football fields? Did people really once pay a "knocker-up" to bang on their window each morning as an early version of the alarm clock? Check the Fib-o-Meter to find out Complete with incredible photos and quirky collage...

Do you know that the world's largest palace can be found in Brunei? Brunei is a state found in the island of Borneo in Southeast Asia. Do you know to what continent the country of Andorra can be found? Andorra is a country bordered by Spain and France in the European continent. Russia is the largest country in the world with a total land area of 17,075,200 square kilometers. The United States of America is the third largest country in the world with a total land area of 9,826,630 square kilometers while the smallest country in the world is the Vatican that only has a land area of just 0.44...

Who, What, Where, Why, When? Is your child always asking questions; always wanting to know more? If so, your child is very probably a Quizzical Kid But what are quizzical kids? Quizzical Kids are the ones who are always asking questions; the ones who want to know who, where, why, when and how? They are the ones who love to absorb a range of random facts, and who often surprise you with what they actually know. They are the ones who want to go beyond the basics that they learn in school; the ones who want to reinforce their learning with a lot more data and information; the ones who want to...

Ever wondered what would happen if some cool or crazy things were possible? Like what would happen if: you got sucked into a black hole; dinosaurs still existed; humans could fly; you could communicate with dolphins; or you could dig a hole through to the center of the Earth?

Get ready to explore all kinds of scenarios that would or could happen if the world was just a slightly different place. Each scenario is examined with real scientific, historical, and cultural facts in mind. This out-of-the-box book encourages readers to cultivate a better understanding of the world as it is - and...

Love to tell scary stories around the camp fire? Like to solve mysteries? Brave enough to hear the truth about some pretty freaky phenomena? Then cuddle up with this spooky spine-tingler, filled with delightfully frightful true stories of real-life monsters, doomed domains, menacing mysteries, strange disappearances, and so much more.

Meet ghosts, ghouls, and zombies. Go inside haunted houses, hidden graveyards, and deadly secret passages. The Fright-o-meter rates each story for its level of scariness. Full of thrills and chills, this book will have you sleeping with a nightlight for...

Love to tell scary stories around the camp fire? Like to solve mysteries? Brave enough to hear the truth about some pretty freaky phenomena? Then cuddle up with this spooky spine-tingler, filled with delightfully frightful true stories of real-life monsters, doomed domains, menacing mysteries, strange disappearances, and so much more.

Meet ghosts, ghouls, and zombies. Go inside haunted houses, hidden graveyards, and deadly secret passages. The Fright-o-meter rates each story for its level of scariness. Full of thrills and chills, this book will have you sleeping with a nightlight for...

Did you know that the first stop signs were black and white? Or that a litter of kittens is called a kindle? There's a lot to know and we bet you'll have fun learning these fun, far-out facts in the next super series from National Geographic Kids

Based on a favorite department in Nat Geo Kids magazine, this book is chock-full of fascinating facts, silly stats, and catchy little knowledge nuggets in all kinds of cool categories, from astronomy and dinosaurs to revolutions and breakfast. Special features include Extreme Weirdness, Strange Places, Wacky World, and more.

It's that time of year again when thoughts of Santa and Christmas trees, reindeer and presents fill the minds of children both young and young at heart Are You Looking For A Fun Christmas Coloring Book? The Red Hat Art prides itself on producing quality themed coloring books for adults and children alike. This latest title "Christmas Coloring Book For Kids" is a children's coloring book that features beautiful kid friendly coloring in designs of some of our favorite Christmas characters. In 'Christmas Coloring Book For Kids' you will find pages of Santas, reindeer, teddys, Christmas trees,...

Take a journey around our planet and visit some little known but amazing places. Be ready to be surprised.

Travel to a spooky sea cave filled with natural blue luminous light. See gigantic stone arches and balancing rocks that seem to defy gravity.

Visit the world's most photographed mountain, one of the most dangerous to climb. See the largest salt flat in the world, flat as a pancake and is so white that it is blinding.

View a single tree that has tens of thousands of trunks, one of the heaviest and one...

What is the BIGGEST animal? The SMALLEST? The FASTEST, the SLOWEST? The MOST POISONOUS? The animal that SLEEPS the MOST?

What animal has the MOST POWERFUL bite?

The answers to these questions and a lot MORE can be found in this book that explores the world of Feats and Records in the Animal Kingdom.

Filled with full color illustrations, bursting with interesting and amazing facts and easy to understand text.

TJ Rob -- www.TJRob.com

This book will fascinate...

Can you guess what is the Strongest animal? What animal is the Smartest, and the Bravest animal?

The Smelliest?

The Softest?

What animal has the Biggest Teeth? Builds the Biggest Nest?

The answers to these questions and a lot MORE can be found in this book of incredible and weird Feats and Records in the Animal Kingdom.

Filled with full color illustrations, overflowing with amazing facts and easy to understand text.

This book will...

Aliens, witches, and ghosts may seem like the stuff of nightmarish legends, but as author Terry Wells discovered, they are all too real.

In her eye-opening true account, Wells reveals some startling truths about what we know-and what we think we know-about the veil that separates life and death.

Wells began dabbling in the supernatural in her early teenage years. But what began innocently as an interest in astrology, about which she even wrote magazine articles, slowly morphed into an ability to communicate with the dead, which she pursued with the idea of helping...

Dating is one of the most exciting periods of your life. Suddenly, there are new horizons before you, friendships flower, your personality blooms, and your sense of being a desirable person worthy of affection becomes real. This is a time of great exhilaration, splendor, and discovery. To live it fully is to enjoy one of life's most delightful experiences. To miss out on dating is a shame and a waste, especially when there is still time to do something about it. Dating is an art, and like all arts it must be cultivated to give results. Approach it with honesty, enthusiasm, energy, and it...

What are the tallest, wettest, driest, hottest, deepest places in the Natural World? The widest river? The tallest living thing?

The tallest mountain on Earth is as tall as 20 Empire State Buildings stacked on top of one another. Where is it?

How deep is the deepest ocean?

What is driest place on Earth - where almost no rain has been seen for the last 500 years? And where is the wettest place?

What is the coldest temperature ever recorded, so cold that you get frostbite in less than 1...

When you look up what do you see? Blue skies, clouds and of course the Sun Without the Sun, there would be no Earth - not an Earth that you and I could live on. Just a frozen globe with no life at all

The Sun is really a star that gives off enormous amounts of energy. An area of the Sun's surface as tiny as the size of a postage stamp shines with the power of 1,500,000 candles We feel the heat of the Sun on our faces even though the Sun is 93 million miles away from Earth. So far away that the heat from the Sun takes 8 minutes to reach us, travelling at...

Dorsey Dimpletoes in her 1st big adventure This time, Dorsey & her father take a ride on the city bus She learn how to catch a bus to and from her home Recommended for young minds who like to travel local.