Over 1000 Fantastic Facts

Over 1000 Fantastic Facts is a 512-page encyclopaedia for kids packed with amazing photographs and illustrations and hard-to-believe facts about the world. * Fun mini projects and quizzes throughout for kids to see facts in action. * Detailed photos and artworks to support the facts. * Numbered facts help children to track their progress and feel achievement. Over 1000 Fantastic Facts covers everything young learners need to know about the world! Topic include planet Earth, the Solar System, everyday science, prehistoric life and dinosaurs, the animal world and ancient history. Along with fun activities, including mini projects and quizzes, this great-value children's book lets kids test their knowledge or learn something new! Topics covered in this book are: * Learn all about our planet and its features, as well as the other planets in the Universe in Earth and Space. * Understand Everyday Science and the workings of the Human Body. * Discover super-sized dinosaurs and prehistoric giants in Prehistoric Life. * Find out more about The Animal World, with mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians, fish, insects and spiders and endangered creatures. * Go back in time into the History of ancient Egypt, ancient Greece, ancient Rome, gladiators, explorers, and knights and castles. Fun activities for kids to put ideas into action include: * See how Moon craters are made using flour and a marble. * Watch how the pupils of your eyes change shape in a light and dark room. * See how an aircraft's wings lift by wrapping a strip of paper around a pencil and blowing hard over the top. Awesome facts include: * Japanese macaque monkeys use thermal springs as hot baths! * Diplodocus could swish its tail so hard and fast that it made an enormous crack like a whip. * Some fossils are made when insects or small animals become trapped in tree sap. When the sap hardens, the animal is preserved inside the amber forever.