Ultimate secrets revealed! A closer look at the weirdest, wildest facts on earth

Stephanie Warren Drimmer

Book - 2018

"The world is full of mind-blowing marvels and this book uncovers our planet's most peculiar phenomena, puzzles from the past, eye-opening inventions, astonishing animals, and so much more! "--Publisher annotation.

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Subjects
Genres
Trivia and miscellanea
Informational works
Instructional and educational works
Published
Washington, D.C. : National Geographic [2018]
Language
English
Main Author
Stephanie Warren Drimmer (author)
Physical Description
191 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 31 cm
Bibliography
Includes index.
ISBN
9781426331831
  • Our wondrous world
  • Astonishing animals
  • Puzzles of the past
  • Feats beyond belief
  • Secrets of space
  • Brain-boggling body
  • Fascinating food
  • Numbers uncovered
  • Eye-opening inventions.
Review by School Library Journal Review

Gr 4-6-This smoothly written jaunt through the world's strange, mysterious, and intriguing facts mainly uses shock factor to grab readers' attention. The book zooms through many areas: biology, animal life, mathematics, archeology, astronomy, plant life, inventions, nature, and history. Some topics, such as rainbows, King Tut's tomb, and Amelia Earhart, are well known and easily researched. Other entries, such as the poisonous ackee fruit, how outer space smells, and the dance of the peacock spider, are more obscure, and librarians helping readers find more information on them will face more of a challenge. The fascinating subjects will pique children's interest, especially reluctant readers. -VERDICT An additional purchase.-Nancy Call, formerly at Santa Cruz Public Libraries, Aptos, CA © Copyright 2019. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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