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What's the Weirdest Thing About Animals?

The wildly wacky and seriously shareable new series!
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Think you know everything there is to know about our world’s weird and wonderful animals?Well think again.From bottom-breathing turtles to fish that live in trees, set off with Edward Brooke-Hitching on a fact-packed safari to discover the strangest, silliest and down-right weirdest things our planet’s amazing... Read More
Format: Paperback / softback
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What's the Weirdest Thing About Animals?

Set off with Edward Brooke-Hitching on a fact-finding safari to discover all the strange, silly, wild and wacky things there is to know about Earth’s awesome animals.

Set off with Edward Brooke-Hitching on a fact-finding safari to discover all the strange, silly, wild and wacky things there is to know about Earth’s awesome animals.

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Think you know everything there is to know about our world’s weird and wonderful animals?

Well think again.

From bottom-breathing turtles to fish that live in trees, set off with Edward Brooke-Hitching on a fact-packed safari to discover the strangest, silliest and down-right weirdest things our planet’s amazing animals has to offer.

Written by former QI elf and author extraordinaire, the first book in Brooke-Hitching’s spectacular new series is extraordinarily enlightening and seriously shareable. Both information- and humour-rich, it is a glorious treasure trove of bite-sized facts for children to either snack on throughout the week or gobble up all in one go. And with a ‘Who’s the Smartest?’ quiz at the end of each section, this book is the perfect companion for children determined to know their barking piranhas from their purring rottweilers – and that’s a fact!

Also available in this series: What’s the Weirdest Thing About the World.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781526685155

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 29 January 2026

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Bloomsbury Childrens Books

Contributors:

  • Illustrated by Jez Tuya

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 20.0mm

Width: 128.0mm

Height: 196.0mm

Weight: 170g

Pages: 208

About the Author

Edward Brooke-Hitching was until recently a writer for TV’s QI. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. His writing has featured in the Guardian, The Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Economist and the Washington Post, amongst others. An unsuccessful amateur sword-swallower, he lives in Berkshire.

Jez Tuya is an illustrator based in Wellington, New Zealand’s windy capital. He’s been honing his craft and working as an illustrator for many years, and over this time he’s worked for many clients in children’s book publishing including Walker Books, Nosy Crow, Usborne and Dorling Kindersley.

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