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Weird but True! 2: 300 Outrageous Facts

by Jonathan Halling
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Did you know that a great white shark can weigh as much as 15 gorillas? That meteorites the size of basketballs land on Earth about once a month? Kids will devour more than 300 wacky facts in Weird but True! 2—the second installment in a lively new spin-off series from the award-winning National Geographic Kids magazine.
National Geographic Kids is the nation’s largest magazine for children, with more than 1.3 million subscribers and 5 million readers. The brand is rapidly gaining traction in the book market, with the huge success of National Geographic Readers and the National Geographic Kids Almanac. Straight from the pages of the magazine’s top-scoring feature, this little book is chock-full of tremendous fun. It’s packed with even more of the wild-n-wacky facts, whimsical designs, and all-out reading fun that made the first Weird but True volume an early success.
This book’s compact size makes it easy to handle and fun to browse. Eye-popping photos and bold, colorful graphics nab kids’ attention and entice them to read. Brain-bending facts cover a broad range of topics, from science to foods to pop culture and just about everything else under the sun. Kids will have so much fun that they won’t even realize they’re learning.

Synopsis

Did you know that a great white shark can weigh as much as 15 gorillas? That meteorites the size of basketballs land on Earth about once a month? Kids will devour more than 300 wacky facts in Weird but True! 2—the second installment in a lively new spin-off series from the award-winning National Geographic Kids magazine.
National Geographic Kids is the nation’s largest magazine for children, with more than 1.3 million subscribers and 5 million readers. The brand is rapidly gaining traction in the book market, with the huge success of National Geographic Readers and the National Geographic Kids Almanac. Straight from the pages of the magazine’s top-scoring feature, this little book is chock-full of tremendous fun. It’s packed with even more of the wild-n-wacky facts, whimsical designs, and all-out reading fun that made the first Weird but True volume an early success.
This book’s compact size makes it easy to handle and fun to browse. Eye-popping photos and bold, colorful graphics nab kids’ attention and entice them to read. Brain-bending facts cover a broad range of topics, from science to foods to pop culture and just about everything else under the sun. Kids will have so much fun that they won’t even realize they’re learning.

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Editorials

Children's Literature - Paula Rohrlick

Fascinating facts, illustrated with beautiful National Geographic full-color photos and enhanced by lively colors and graphic design, make this an appealing coffee-table book for the younger set. What child does not like to regale others with such information as "Rhinoceroses don't sweat" and "The odds that an average golfer will make a hole in one during a game as 1 in 12,000"? If you have always wanted to know how many people are born every day, how many two-inch sticky notes it would take to circle the globe, or how many flowers bees have to visit to make an average jar of honey, this is the place to look. Many of the facts deal with animals, and other frequent topics include outer space, technology, food, and the human body, though there is no attempt to organize the material. There is an index, but no citations, unfortunately. Great fun for browsing, though, as this is an attractive volume filled with entertaining trivia. Sequel to Weird But True! 300 Outrageous Facts. Reviewer: Paula Rohrlick

Book Details

Published
July 1, 2010
Publisher
National Geographic Society
Pages
208
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9781426306884

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