How many bees does it take to make a jar of honey? Did you know sharks are so sensitive that they can detect the current from batteries 1,000 miles apart? Believe it or not, it's true. Discover more amazing and seemingly impossible facts in It Can't Be True! 2 . By combining hard to believe facts with CGI renderings and photographs, this book places information with visual aids that puts everything to scale, including how the Titanic would be in the shadow of today's huge ocean liners. Kids will love the weird, out-of-this-world facts for just about anything. See how big a squid can grow compared to people, figure out how much water an elephant can hold in its trunk, and look at how a tiny frog can fit on a coin. Readers will pore over the pages of this book to find astounding facts in this new collection. It Can't Be True! 2 uses photography, infographics, and snappy text to bring facts to life that will have kids eager to find out more bizarre facts to share with family and friends.
Dorling Kindersley (DK) is a British multinational publishing company specializing in illustrated reference books for adults and children in 62 languages. It is part of Penguin Random House, a consumer publishing company jointly owned by Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA and Pearson PLC. Bertelsmann owns 53% of the company and Pearson owns 47%.
Established in 1974, DK publishes a range of titles in genres including travel (including Eyewitness Travel Guides), arts and crafts, business, history, cooking, gaming, gardening, health and fitness, natural history, parenting, science and reference. They also publish books for children, toddlers and babies, covering such topics as history, the human body, animals and activities, as well as licensed properties such as LEGO, Disney and DeLiSo, licensor of the toy Sophie la Girafe. DK has offices in New York, London, Munich, New Delhi, Toronto and Melbourne.