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

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There’s a great balance of subject matter, combined with the slightly gross, creepy-crawly type information that children love so much. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.

Choose your own path through this hilarious world of 400 facts, all of which are verified by Encyclopaedia Britannica. Come down the travelators, exit Sainsbury's, turn right and follow the pedestrianised walkway to Crown Walk and turn right - and Coles will be right in front of you.I hope that readers realize that there’s amazing information all around them—no matter if it’s about cockroaches, chickens, or clouds. There are tons of different subjects within the book; breakfasts, space, animals, dinosaurs, light, weather, crystals – anything you could possibly think of. You follow paths through the book that connect pieces and bits of random fun facts across categories.

These paths all intertwine really well, as you transition from learning about bugs to learning about sharks, and then into light reflecting off of the moon creating rainbows! The twist (and the fun of it) comes when you follow the facts from page to page in a "choose-your-own-adventure" type journey through the book.This coruscating cornucopia of extraordinary facts is truly a fun and fact-filled reading adventure. Every one of the 400 facts in these books are connected to the next in an ingenious trail of information. When she’s not hunting for new facts, Kate enjoys gardening, playing video games and planning road trips to national parks. For example, pages 6-7 show how the topics go together and move from fact to fact: start with Romans eating ice cream made from ice on snowy mountains.

This non-fiction book is full of amazing facts - Accidental inventions is a favourite page in our house! 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. He likes the way the facts follow on from each other but also likes to just open it anywhere and pick things out . The illustrations are fun and dominate the page while the arrows between the facts prompt even the most reluctant reader to investigate further.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. The perfect book for any fact-lover, Factopia contains 400 different facts to discover and be wowed by, covering almost anything from nature to robots to the human body to space. The bright orange cover is so appealing … Inside, the bite-sized facts are easy to read and digest prompting thought and discussion long after the book has been closed. So, dip in and out, or follow the trail from beginning to end, or even take one of the side branches to skip ahead or back to a different connected fact.

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 not producing commercial work for clients Andy can be found in the studio screen printing books and posters. Every fact in the book is connected to the next in an ingenious trail of information; hop from topic to topic in unexpected and hilarious ways, and discover extraordinary facts about fungus, dreams, dogs, tyrannosaurs, planets, diamonds, bumblebees, robots, jellyfish, Egyptian mummies, and more!Andy Smith is an award-winning illustrator, and studied illustration at the University of Brighton and the Royal College of Art, London. This wittily illustrated book is the perfect gift to inspire and delight curious children aged 8–12. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.