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5000 Awesome Facts (About Everything): Updated and Expanded (Disney: National Geographic Kids)
Series: National Geographic Kids
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Do you know which real-life animal recording was used to make the sound of the T.rex roaring in Jurassic Park? Or in which country butter was once an accepted form of currency? Or that a town in Longyearbyen in Norway has more polar bears than people?...
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Do you know which real-life animal recording was used to make the sound of the T.rex roaring in Jurassic Park? Or in which country butter was once an accepted form of currency? Or that a town in Longyearbyen in Norway has more polar bears than people?
5000 Awesome Facts (About Everything): Updated and Expanded (Disney: National Geographic Kids) is bigger and better than ever with refreshed and updated info, even more beautiful photos, and 16 extra pages bursting with all-new bonus facts!
Featuring tons of tidbits on toys and games, amazing animals, sports and tech, wacky wonders, wild weather, and so much more, this boredom-busting compendium has something for everyone!
Discover how much of your DNA you share with a slug, how far the world's longest pizza stretched, how rhinos avoid getting sunburned, and much, much more.
This vibrant, info-packed book is the book for fact-hounds and curious kids everywhere!
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Linking to a popular feature in the super successful National Geographic Little Kids Magazine, this book brings the browsable fun of the bestselling National Geographic Kids Almanac to a new audience: preschoolers! Using an interactive question-and-answer format and content grounded in a child's immediate world, The Big Book of Why delivers lively information, hands-on games, simple recipes, crafts, and more....Hardback$4800Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today -
National Geographic Kids: My Little 8-Book Animal Library Cube (Disney)
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Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781761812699
Publisher: Scholastic Australia
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 01 July 2026
Country: Australia
Imprint: Scholastic Australia
Audience: Children
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 19.0mm
Width: 240.0mm
Height: 311.0mm
Weight: 300g
Pages: 240
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