Brain Candy 3: Seriously Sweet Facts to Satisfy Your Curiosity

by Michelle Harris

Elephants have thick skin, but just how thick? Turns out it's 50 times thicker than human skin and can add as much as 2,000 pounds (900kg) to the weight of this massive animal!

Earth's smaller animals offer some sweet surprises, too. Hop on a honeybee to discover just how hardworking these fast-flying insects are. They beat their wings 200 times a second as they fly about. And no wonder they're so busy--they need to pollinate two million flowers to make just one pound (.45 kg) of honey.

Brain Candy books take a novel approach to learning by serving up an appetizing assortment of facts and numbers, then diving deeper into each topic.

Like learning cool facts and how they're connected to the bigger picture? Treat yourself to a little Brain Candy! Sure to be an addictive addition to the bookshelves of Weird But True! and Just Joking fans and curious kids everywhere.

Complete your fun fact book collection:

208 pages, Library Binding

Published October 5, 2021

Reviews

[Becky B · Rating 4 out of 5]

A collection of random bites of information on a wide variety of topics presented in an eye-catching format with tons of photographs and lots of graphic design elements.

This is a quick read as most of the pages have the text quite large and the information encompassing just a few sentences. Every once in a while there's a deep dive into a topic just touched on with a full page of text in a smaller font. Our students love these types of books from National Geographic and I can see why. It contains lots of fascinating and entraining tidbits, it is a quick read, and you feel a little smarter after reading it (though on a very eclectic range of topics). Hand this to random fact sponges.

Notes on content:
Language: None
Sexual content: None
Violence: Shipwrecks are talked about and deaths are just briefly mentioned.
Ethnic diversity: People talked about in the book are from all over the world
LGBTQ+ content: None specified
Other: Some of the scientific facts presented are actually theories (sometimes it clarifies and sometimes it doesn't).

[H]

Very much a fun book filled with unusual facts that can be read one-at-a-time or all at once. Would recommend highly.

[Samantha · Rating 5 out of 5]

Lots of interesting information.

[Natalie · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a book of random facts in fun and easy to read format. These types of books are always popular with our elementary students as it's easy to read and fun to learn new facts!