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Weird but True! 2: 300 Outrageous Facts [Paperback]

National Geographic Kids , Jonathan Halling

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July 27 2010 Weird But True
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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NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC KIDS magazine is the largest consumer children's magazine in the United States, with more than 1.3 million subscribers and more than 5 million readers. A multi-topic, photo-driven magazine for 6- to 14-year-olds, NG KIDS empowers readers by making it fun to learn about the world. NG KIDS is also published in 18 languages worldwide. The magazine is a recipient of numerous industry awards, including several from the Association of Educational Publishers in 2008.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great visuals punch up the fun facts! Sep 17 2010
By Travis Ann Sherman - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Paperback
I would quote one of the fascinating facts about stuff like how fast your toenails grow and whether or not there's gold on the sun, but I don't have this book on my desk any more. I'm a children's librarian and my copy's already been checked out -- after all I got it yesterday! I love it when books sell themselves -- and when kids thank me on the way out the door for having ordered them! Do yourself a favor and do the same thing. Buy this book for your eight year old!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Amaze 'em! Entertain 'em! Gross 'em out! Get 'em thinking! May 9 2011
By P. Kingsriter - Published on Amazon.com
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Just like Weird But True: 300 Outrageous Facts (National Geographic Kids), this is a rare case of "you CAN judge a book by its cover". It's essentially more of the same kind of mind-boggling factoids sure to entertain and amaze most readers. If you (or, ahem, your children) enjoyed the first volume, this edition will certainly continue the trend.

There are a few facts per full-color page and the graphics and design are engaging but not distracting. There are a couple of facts more gentle readers might find "gross", but they'll be largely palatable for the average elementary schooler's curious mind. The reader is almost always left wanting more information, but the book just leaves each solitary fact and moves along, whetting the appetite for more knowledge.

If you've got a budding explorer, scientist, adventurer, or trivia buff, this would be an excellent and entertaining way to perk their curiosity. Comes highly recommended!
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Student attention grabber Nov 2 2010
By J. Elliott - Published on Amazon.com
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This book is like a coffee-table, gift-book type item for kids. Each page has gorgeous pictures and interesting text placement - a perfect work of art. It's a book that, for some reason, has me thinking about my ADD and ADHD students. I typically encourage students to borrow from my classroom library after finishing an assignment early, and the attention span of some of my students is quite short.

I envision these short, little snippets as being a favorite haunt of the book-browser (aka a kid who grabs a book, flips through it while hopefully reading some of it, and then goes for the next one). Ideally, I would love for every student to be a book-nerd like me, but that's not going to happen. Hopefully this book will sneak in a little fluency and vocabulary development while the beautiful, graphic quality has a them engaged and entertained.

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