Splat the Fake Fact!: Doodle on them, laser beam them, lasso them
By (Author) Adam Frost
Illustrated by Gemma Correll
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Bloomsbury Childrens Books
1st July 2018
3rd May 2018
United Kingdom
Children
Non Fiction
Childrens / Teenage general interest: General knowledge and interesting facts
Childrens / Teenage general interest: History and the past
Childrens / Teenage general interest: Practical interests
Childrens / Teenage general interest: Humour and jokes
032.02
Paperback
160
Width 153mm, Height 190mm
182g
Watch out! Some incorrect facts have escaped from my imagination and into the pages of this book. On every page there are incredible, hilarious, unlikely facts that are completely true and one fact that isnt! Can you find the imposter fact and reveal it before it goes out into the world Can you guess which of these facts is NOT true Woodlice have blue blood. Dead cabbage caf is the name of a band. King Edward III banned football in England. You swallow about 1 litre of snot a day! (Thats roughly 5 skips FULL of snot, swallowed during your lifetime.) When glass snakes are attacked, their tail shatters into little pieces these pieces jump around and distract the predator while the rest of the snake escapes! Read on as you hunt for fascinating facts and use your detective skills to uncover the untrue fact. With hilarious illustrations, youll need all your brains to discover the answers: can you squash the made-up bug fact, decipher hieroglyphics, and join the stars in a night-time sky to find all the answers
Adam Frost is one of the UK's most exciting children's writers. He has won the Blue Peter Book Award 2016 - Best Book with Facts, and been nominated for the Waterstone's Children's Book Prize. When Adam is not collecting weird and wonderful facts, he works as a website editor and information designer for publications such as The Guardian, Buzzfeed and The BFI. His favourite animal is the brown-throated sloth.