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What Came First?
Series: What Came First?
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Discover a host of surprising facts about science, animals, people, games, and much more in an incredible journey through the world’s timeline. Are pants older than socks? Did flushing toilets come before toilet paper? What’s older – Mount Everest or sharks? Find out the answer to...
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Discover a host of surprising facts about science, animals, people, games and much more in an incredible journey through the world’s timeline.
A new, fact-filled illustrated children’s non-fiction book for 2025
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Description
Discover a host of surprising facts about science, animals, people, games, and much more in an incredible journey through the world’s timeline.
Are pants older than socks?
Did flushing toilets come before toilet paper?
What’s older – Mount Everest or sharks?
Find out the answer to these questions, and much, much more in What Came First? 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 People’s Book Prize 2022.
Series: What Came First?
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What Came First?
Discover a host of surprising facts about science, animals, people, games, and much more in an incredible journey through the world’s timeline. Are pants older than socks? Did flushing toilets come before toilet paper? What’s older – Mount Everest or sharks? Find out the answer to these questions, and much, much more in What Came First? Get ready for a...Paperback$1999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780008568153
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 03 July 2025
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Red Shed
Contributors:
- Illustrated by Aaron Cushley
Audience: Children
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 2.0mm
Width: 245.0mm
Height: 275.0mm
Weight: 220g
Pages: 32
About the Author
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.
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