FACTopia!: Follow the Trail of 400 Facts [Britannica]

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This amount includes seller specified domestic postage charges as well as applicable international postage, dispatch, and other fees. Ancient Rome, Samuri, the Islamic Golden Age, giant things and toilets only scratch the surface of what they’ll find inside! Hop from topic to topic in delightfully unexpected ways to discover what connects dinosaurs with chickens or breakfast with black holes!

His work combines illustration and typography to create images that have humour, energy and optimism executed with a handmade, hand-printed, tactile feel. Every one of the 400 facts in these books are connected to the next in an ingenious trail of information. Following the different routes became a fun path for him, as he went back to previous paths and then followed them differently going forward, to see how they connected to the next facts. When she's not hunting for new facts, Kate enjoys gardening, playing video games, and planning road trips to national parks.Choose your own path through this hilarious world of 400 facts, all of which are verified by Encyclopaedia Britannica. Each fact is presented as a snippet on the page, with an accompanying illustration or photograph – but one of the things that makes this book stand out is it’s ‘follow-the-trail’ system. Some of the paths are sort of like choose your own adventure, where you can follow a path forward or choose to follow it to another page, listed on the path.

When not producing commercial work for clients Andy can be found in the studio screen printing books and posters. Factopia feels like an educational book that has been really well thought out, for those with curious, wandering mines that go from one thing to the next. But there's not just one trail through these pages: sometimes your path branches and you can choose to jump to a totally different (but still connected) part of the book. Je kunt een pad volgen van begin naar het einde maar ook af en toe een detour nemen en een ander pad volgen! As you follow the trail of facts you find that the "weight of the largest chocolate bar ever made is the same as 6 male polar bears!But there’s not just one trail through these pages: sometimes your path branches and you can choose to jump to a totally different, but still connected, part of the book.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. We took it with on holiday recently and one night I had to go and stop him from reading at around 11pm, he was reading this for over 2 hours solid.

Kids who are really into trivia will probably enjoy it, while those with less interest may find the format frustrating. Did you know an Australian architect was inspired to build Sydney’s world-renowned opera house after peeling an orange?

I grabbed this one to read with my toddlers because they enjoy learning and have a million questions! witty illustrations and photographs: Playful artwork brings these extraordinary facts to life and is packed with visual jokes that are guaranteed to make you laugh out loud. With more than 300 witty illustrations and photos, and topics from space and dinosaurs to volcanoes and pharaohs covered, there should be something here for everyone.

This is a fabulously fun way to learn new things and encourage inquisitiveness – adults and children alike will find themselves dipping into it for years to come.