How to Avoid a Wombat's Bum
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
How to Avoid a Wombat's Bum
By (Author) Mitchell Symons
Penguin Random House Children's UK
Red Fox
1st August 2008
5th June 2008
United Kingdom
Classifications
Children
Non Fiction
032.02
Physical Properties
Paperback
320
Width 126mm, Height 178mm, Spine 19mm
196g
Description
The ultimate trivia guide for kids from the bestselling, double Blue Peter Award winning, Mitchell Symons! Did you know THAT- The first ready-to-eat breakfast cereal was Shredded Wheat in 1893 (it beat Kellogg's Corn Flakes by just five years) Scarlett Johansson, Ashton Kutcher and Simon Cowell all have twin brothers. Everton were the first British football club to introduce a stripe down the side of their shorts. The word DUDE was coined by Oscar Wilde and his friends. It is a combination of the words 'duds' and 'attitude'. Well you do now! Filled with fantastic facts and figures to amaze and intrigue . . . once you start reading you'll be hooked for hours!
Author Bio
Mitchell Symons was born in 1957 in London and educated at Mill Hill School and the LSE, where he studied just enough law to get a Third. Since leaving BBC TV, where he was a researcher and then a director, he has worked as a writer, broadcaster and journalist. He was a principal writer of early editions of the board game Trivial Pursuit and has devised many television formats. Currently he writes an award-winning weekly column for the Sunday Express.
