5,000 Awesome Facts (About Everything!)

by National Geographic Kids

"Filled with photographs, this beautifully designed book is organized into two-page spreads that each focus on a different topic, making it easy and fun to read." --Redding.com

Presenting the next must-have, fun-filled gift book from the team that created Ultimate Weird But True , 5,000 Cool Facts About Everything treats kids to brain candy and eye candy all rolled into one treasure trove of high-interest fascinating facts.

Lively and information-packed, this book is literally busting its covers with fascinating, fun-tastic facts on super, sensational topics that kids love. Who knew that there were so many sweet things to learn about chocolate or that a dozen delicious details about peanut butter would show up on a page with a few splotches of jelly to whet our appetites? Keep turning and a terrifyingly toothy shark tells you all about himself, while other spreads lay out tons of tips on toys and games, mysteries of history, robots and reptiles, sports and spies, wacky words, and so much more! A visual feast of colorful photographs surrounded by swirling, tipping, expanding, and climbing bits of information in a high-energy design, this book will satisfy both the casual browser and the truly fact obsessed.

Genres: Nonfiction, Childrens, Science, Reference, History, School, Trivia

224 pages, Hardcover

First published October 9, 2012

About the author

With more than 600 titles—including the popular Weird But True franchise and the New York Times Best Selling National Geographic Kids Almanac—National Geographic Kids Books is the recognized leader in nonfiction for kids. Published in 28 languages, NGK Books reaches approximately 85 million kids every year.

Offering K-12 educators resources that align to and support the Common Core State Standards, National Geographic has a long history of providing high-quality informational texts suitable for primary, upper elementary, and middle school English language arts, social studies, and science classrooms.

Reviews

[Velvet · Rating 5 out of 5]

What a fantastic book this is! And it's not just for kids. I love the format-each page, or two-page spread, is a different subject. The photos are fantastic and some of the facts are just too dang funny. Really quite a great way to learn something new.

[Keros Chavez · Rating 5 out of 5]

OMG. This is the most informational book I have ever read. I rate this book 5/5 amazing. So many facts nobody but you know now. WOW.

[J.M. (Joe) · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some very interesting stuff in here. I learned quite a bit of useless trivia. One might rather entitle this "4,000 Facts and 1,000 Fictions," though.

[Aidan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Splendid, a good book. I get most of my information here.

[Natasha Jones · Rating 2 out of 5]

“One day, Laptops will roll up like a Yoga Mat” (pg 24). In this edition of National Geographic kids, you can learn 5,000 facts about any and everything. From fact about the future to facts about prehistoric times, there is no subject uncovered.

I give 5,000 Awesome Facts (about everything) 2 stars. The title is correct when it says that there are 5,000 facts but exaggerated the “awesome” part of it. Using the term “awesome” sets the reader up to only let them down within the first couple pages. I was totally on board after learning that peanut butter doesn't actually have butter as one of its ingredients but was let down once they introduced the topic of aliens. One of the facts mentioned scientist making a website for aliens to contact them but only ended up receiving hoax messages. What about that fact is so “awesome” or even important to include in this book? Certain pages were just overwhelming to read. On pages that featured 100 facts failed to feature anything more than 10 point font facts, a title and a generic picture that served no purpose. The picture wasn't labeled, it wasn't a graph I can analyze and probably had been used in several other National Geographic books/magazines. Other pages had extreme backgrounds that took away from the information featured and the information spread across it didn't allow me to clearly see the picture. Overall, about 60% of this book gets my approval and fits my expectations of informational books.

A book with so many facts, and so many topics, only makes me think of one purpose in the classroom. Because I don't like this book’s images I will only share the random, and important facts I have seen throughout the book. The fact I shared earlier about the future of laptops can yield a discussion about the future and maybe a creative project on future inventions. The alien fact, is not something I deem as important and will not share it with my class.

[Children's Bookshelf · Rating 5 out of 5]

Every month in my 4th grade class the bookshelf gets restocked. I go through the classroom bookshelf and quietly replace most of the books with fresh ones.
This month I included some National Geographic Kids books and they’re a smash hit!
The kids are loving them and literally fighting over the books during reading time 🤣 I’ve been going through them and using a lot of the facts in my lessons which I’m finding to be very inspiring. The kids are coming to me with endless questions about things they’re finding in the books… and really learning a lot.
A few times, I found myself going down random rabbit holes with some of these questions… it has certainly improved our lessons and the kids are eating it up! Two thumbs up for these books!!

[Jaxon Roberts · Rating 5 out of 5]

What was your favorite fact (and why)? the redwood trees because it is the largest living thing!.
What fact surprised you? the fact that surprised me was {what is the largest living thing} it was the redwood trees witch surprised me.
Would you change a fact Why/why not? yes, I would because some facts failed and made me sad so I would change the facts that ended sadly and the facts that were not very interesting to me.

215 pages AUTHOR: National Geographic Kids

[Erin Buhr · Rating 5 out of 5]

5000 AWESOME FACTS ABOUT EVERYTHING isn't an oversell of a title. This one is a collection of lists. List about random things like peanut butter, mummies, the ocean, migrations, colors - truly random and truly interesting. The lists are visually interesting and all include factoids. We are all learning a lot from this one.

[Zaria · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very interesting!! Obviously I didn’t read every single one of those 5,000 facts ,but the ones I read were interesting facts!

[Nikeda Jones · Rating 1 out of 5]

I really thought this book was affenceive. To me nikeda because idk how to read so I Mae not be abbualll to give this a goode review

[Kierstyn · Rating 5 out of 5]

Informational

So interesting, and the pictures would be great even for kids who don't quite know how to read the words yet. Great for a classroom library.

[Jacob tichy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Best book ever!!

[Gavino Delgado · Rating 5 out of 5]

It was a great book with a lot of really cool facts.

[Liam M · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good book a lot of good facts

[Dylan Talbot · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love the book it's really fun and easy to read

[Nathan · Rating 5 out of 5]

It's pretty good. I haven't read all of it, but it's really good. You can learn lots of facts from it, and if you're confused with anything you can find it in the book.

Nathan (age 7)

[Kiernan McCormick · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love all fact books and am constantly reading books all day so when i got this for christmas i wa so excited! LOVE THE BOOK!

[Osvald]

this is how i talk to girls* at parties

*and boys and non binary people

[Jeremiah · Rating 4 out of 5]

Tis nice, goood boook Fun Fact it took me 400 Interrupted minuts

[MAYA'S NOOK · Rating 5 out of 5]

THIS WAS MY CHILDHOOD. I was so obsessed with this book to the point I think I memorized the pages or the content of the pages. The good ol' days!

[Kim · Rating 4 out of 5]

It took me and my son two years to finish this book. We had fun learning so many interesting facts.

[Kai Wery · Rating 5 out of 5]

cool

[Mitzvah Zavala · Rating 3 out of 5]

This non-fiction book could not be a better was to get kids to read without the pressure of "big book"structures and maybe even long paragraphs. This book can be read by young kids starting probably in 1st grade and up. It is a fun book that has visuals and it gives random facts you would never know about. It is interesting to read these books with children because of a lot of the facts are things they are finding out for the first time and it can be fascinating.

[Caleb. Humber · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good

[Aarun · Rating 4 out of 5]

5000 awesome facts!!! did you know that the creator of james bond aka 007 was a spy himself or that the U.S.A used pigeons a secret camera. this book has it all with 5000 facts you can find anything that you like. something you would read just cause you bored. national geographic really out did there self.

I picked up this book thinking oh my gosh i want to know 5000 cool facts!!!

I continued reading this book because it was a real page turner

I would recommend this book to Inesh, Angus, and Cris because they would all enjoy this funny facts

[Kim Heimbuch · Rating 5 out of 5]

Reviewed by Avery, age 9, for City Book Review
This is a perfect book for casual reading. Each category has between fifteen and one hundred facts on a topic listed on the page and are exactly what the title of the book says, AWESOME!...read the entire review at http://www.musingwithcrayolakym.com/b...

[Melana · Rating 5 out of 5]

This 224 page book is filled with all the facts about everything! Intresting,fun,and out of this world facts are covering the pages of this book. There are some that will amaze you, grose you out, or even make you say woah out loud! So READ this book if you like animals, bugs,castles,and FACTS!! This book is for everyone and every age, if you read it.

[Michelle · Rating 5 out of 5]

I give this book 5 stars because it had a lot of information and facts that I didn't know of before. I would recommend this book to people of ages 10+ because it has some big vocabulary in it for older people. Other than that I find this book to be very entertaining and informative and I would most definitely recommend this book.

[Travis Fain · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very surprising and entertaining. Anyone who wants a "little" fact book to tell your friends about.

[Ursula · Rating 5 out of 5]

10YO girl and 6YO boy can't get enough of this. Great for homeschooling; leave it around on the table for free moments in between subjects/lessons.