Children's / Teenage general interest: General knowledge & trivi

Explore the amazing ways animal babies are just like us in this enchanting non-fiction picture book. There are babies everywhere! Some babies can fly and some babies can swim. Most animal babies are very different to us, but there are lots of special ways that we might be the same. Especially whe...

Flex your fact muscles and test your trivia knowledge with the Encyclopaedia of Unbelievable Facts. Packed with 500 perplexing questions, this book is perfect for family quiz nights and impressing in the playground.

This striking portrait of our world in numbers makes statistics fun and accessible to children and their grown-ups. Every second, somewhere across the globe, an aeroplane takes off and another one lands. Two people die, and four babies enter the world. 15,000 plastic bottles are produced and 1600...

How much bamboo can a giant panda eat? Do aliens exist? What we would do if we didn't have a prime minister? Why do hammerhead sharks have such strange-shaped heads? Featuring a collection of 366 curious questions, 'Everything Under the Sun' provides answers to these curious queries, plus much, m...

Dinosaur fans will quickly become dinosaur experts with this informative, inventive and entertaining take on a dinosaur book! Do you know all there is to know about dinosaurs? They're mean, green and not very smart, right? Well, this book is here to show you that you're wrong! But don't worry, ev...

Enter the hilarious world of Sam Quigley, the strange-fact-obsessed owner of two stick insects called Twiggy and Wiggy in 'Exploding Beetles and Inflatable Fish'. Sam really likes interesting facts, the kind that will make you shout 'wow! I never knew that'. Did you know that the most poisonous c...

Packed with fun situations, this book is the perfect way to learn about explorers and exploration. Prepare to decide what you would prefer to eat if you were on a great expedition, if you would rather explore the highest or lowest point on Earth, and what your packing essentials would be. Each si...

Did you know that a squid has a brain shaped like a doughnut? Or that some butterflies drink turtle tears? Welcome to 'FACTopia', a world of perfectly amazing facts, all of which are verified by Encyclopaedia Britannica! Every fact in the book is connected to the next in an ingenious trail of inf...

An interactive quiz book all about fake news - can you spot the truth from the lies? Trump may have been shouting all about 'FAKE NEWS' but it has been a phenomenon since way before he was born. Can you help sort the fact from the fiction through a series of true or false questions about everythi...

Travel to Greece and watch Kyniska, a Spartan princess, become the first ever woman to win at the ancient Olympic Games. Or touch the heavens with Junko Tabei as she carves her path through history and mountain ranges with little applause but a lot of bravery. From football superstars to trailbla...