What Came First (What Came First)
By (Author) Kit Frost
Illustrated by Aaron Cushley
HarperCollins Publishers
Red Shed
1st November 2025
3rd July 2025
United Kingdom
Children
Non Fiction
Childrens / Teenage general interest: Nature, animals, the natural world
Childrens / Teenage general interest: Places and peoples
Childrens / Teenage general interest: Sports and outdoor recreation
Childrens / Teenage general interest: Science and technology
Childrens / Teenage general interest: Inventors, inventions and experiments
Paperback
32
Width 245mm, Height 275mm, Spine 2mm
270g
Discover a host of surprising facts about science, animals, people, games and much more in an incredible journey through the worlds timeline.
Are pants older than socks
Did flushing toilets come before toilet paper
Whats older Mount Everest or sharks
Find out the answer to these questions, and much, much more in this book! Get ready for a journey through a series of mind-boggling questions you might never have thought to ask and learn some surprising facts along the way.
Zoom out on history to see the world in a different way and draw connections between history, science, geography and more.
Including a timeline featuring many of the incredible events explored in the book.
By the illustrator of If The World Were 100 People, winner of the Royal Society Young Peoples Book Prize 2022.
Kit Frost is a writer, editor and sports enthusiast who loves being outdoors and writing poems. She lives in London. Aaron Cushley is an illustrator from Belfast in Northern Ireland. He loves drawing and creating work that fuels his curiosity and adventurous side. Most of his work has been influenced by experiences and the world around him. When he's not out walking his dog he's scribbling down sketches of thoughts and images that come to mind.