National Geographic Kids Weird But True! 6: 300 Outrageous Facts

Weird But True #6

by National Geographic Kids

This latest addition to the Weird But True series offers children 300 more of the wacky facts, illustrations, and photographs they love! This casual reference book is full of wild and entertaining, brain-bending facts accompanied by vibrant photography and illustrations. Kids will have a blast exploring this new book and will forget they are learning!

Genres: Nonfiction, Childrens, Animals, Education, Middle Grade, Science

208 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2014

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

[Adrian Rivera · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was a good book with lots of cool, weird, and surprising fact's. Some of the fact seem fake and you won't believe them but they are all real! Like did you know rabbits can see behind them while looking strait ahead! Its like they have eyes on the back of there head! The thing I love most about this book is that everything is real and I recommend it to readers that are curious.

[Amy Diop · Rating 5 out of 5]

i love those kind of book i'm learning a lot of thing

[Kinsey Allen]

National Geographic Kids Weird But True! 6: 300 Outrageous Facts by National Geographic Kids is a good informational book for early readers. With weird facts and illustrations about different things that interest children, I think it to be a great choice for educating students and getting them to love reading. I would recommend this book to ages 6-12 years old.

[Kitty · Rating 1 out of 5]

Citation needed?

This is the most poorly written fact book of its type that I’ve ever found. It’s not specific in the details. It’s a pile of stuff that could be intersecting if it were sorted out and put with it’s missing parts. 🤷‍♀️

[Zoe · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book had a lot of weird facts in it. It was fun to read!

[Backpack Bob · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good, but there weren't 1,000,000 years and some I don't exactly believe.

[Lindsay]

"For $25 you can order a jar of toenails online."

"The Goliath Spider's fangs are as long as a paperclip."

"Tigers and house cats share 95% of the same genes."

"People who love to read tend to be nicer and more understanding a study found."

"When a female dragon fly is annoyed by a male she will play dead until he leaves."

"A whale's earwax can be as thick as a mattress."

[Ashley Mejia · Rating 5 out of 5]

"National Geographic Kids Weird but True! 6: 300 Outrageous Facts" is a nonfiction fiction book intended for elementary school kids. This is a book about 300 weird facts about random things in the world. For example, some zoo animals suck on blood-sicle's during heat waves to stay cool. Another example is that some butterflies drink turtle tears. Those are very weird facts, but they are true facts that scientists have discovered somehow. This a great book for kids who want random knowledge on many different topics. It has really interesting facts that they can tell friends or family members. Some of them really make you think or even make you want to do more research about. The book says that there is a pink lake in Australia. That would make people want to do more research on the lake. Like why is it pink?
May 14, 2020

[Brooklyn · Rating 5 out of 5]

This a super fun book! There is no specific flow to the book each page has multiple random facts. Kids and even adults that read this will forget their learning because this book has some of the most funny and weirdest facts. The facts span from animals to weird bodily functions. The illustrations and pictures are portrayed in such a fun way! This book is by National Geographic which is perfect for nonfiction. The author's style is informal but very factual.

[John Morr · Rating 4 out of 5]

I liked this book. I did not like that it talked about life being on earth for millions of years but I thought there were some fun cool facts. I would recommend this book if you want to learn some interesting facts.

[Abby S · Rating 3 out of 5]

I liked the book. I wasent my favorite .I[ think that b[oys will enjoy it better than girls.But some girls could like it

[Linda Appelbaum · Rating 3 out of 5]

Plenty of crazy, interesting and fun facts for kiddos along with great photos. Kids loved it.

[Natalia · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fun little book full of curious facts and good pictures. Can be a good small gift for a child of elementary to middle grade age.

[Carlos Rodriguez · Rating 5 out of 5]

it was FRESSSSHHHHHHHHHH

[Hannah · Rating 5 out of 5]

Lots of fun trivia!!! My kids love this series.

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[Jayden · Rating 2 out of 5]

I Hate that th oak has so much billions of years. FAKEFAKEFAKE. There resume interesting facts tho7gh.

[Cade Salem · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book was more realistic then the other on. I liked this book a lot. One problem, it said the earth has been alive for 1 billion years

[Ximena De Leon · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have read about a lot of things here are the most interesting ones for me: It doesn't rain in the eye of a hurricane, a turtle’s shell is made up of about 50 bones, Atlantic lobsters sometimes eat each other, a palm tree is not a tree it’s a type of grass, a cronut is a cross between a doughnut and a croissant, the first ever webcam was used to watch a pot of coffee, the world’s biggest passenger jet weighs as much as 100 hippos and Rabbits can see behind them without moving their heads. Something I never seen before is that this book doesn't have characters. My book changed in a major way because it talked of a lot of different things. I will recommend this book to Luci because she is reading a similar book and I know she will love this book because it is so interesting and also she told me that this book was cool.

[Erin Fowler · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was so much reading this book while my students hovered over me to see the pictures and fun photos. This book will definitely make it's way around to students in my class!

[Tanya · Rating 5 out of 5]

The kiddos just adore this book! I'll have to get the others.

[Ryan · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love these books! They are fascinating. I hope my kids keep getting them at the library so I can read them after they go to bed!

[Allison Brenner · Rating 3 out of 5]

Really interesting facts

[Jennifer Bartlett · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fun little read. Was great for down time!

[Kelly · Rating 5 out of 5]

Did you know....

Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy?

In Belgium, there are postage stamps that smell and taste like chocolate?

There are no seagulls in Hawaii?

Love this series!

[Emma Rice · Rating 5 out of 5]

I like how there are so many interesting facts and it is just really random. Like on one page there is a fact about Egypt then the next is about pigs or something!

[Sarahnm · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very fun facts and a great book for reluctant readers.

[Lauren · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love reading these random facts.

[Joshua · Rating 4 out of 5]

It had a lot of cool facts that were interesting. There is a HUGE series so I recommend those books too.

[Madeleine · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is good. It has a lot of facts and some are very weird. And one of the very good parts about this book is there is more weird but true.