Weird But True! Sharks

by National Geographic Kids

Whale sharks have tiny teeth covering their eyeballs! It’s Weird But True! And this fin-tastic, photo- and fact-packed book in the best-selling series is the most jaw-some yet!

Sink your chompers into these wild

They’re all weird, and they’re all true. And there’s A LOT more where that came from!

From bizarre creatures in the ocean today to gigantic prehistoric sharks and even some pop culture shark weirdness, this portable, browsable, supercool book is full of incredible facts, amazing photos, and fun illustrations about everything sharks.

It’s the perfect book for shark superfans, trivia buffs, reluctant readers, and animal-loving kids of all kinds.
Hungry for more unbelievable facts? Check out Weird But True! Dinosaurs, Weird But True! Oceans, and the rest of the kid-favorite Weird But True! series.

Genres: Nonfiction, Childrens, Science

208 pages, Paperback

Published May 9, 2023

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

[Ankita · Rating 2 out of 5]

apparently 300 was an ambitious number. some of these facts aren’t even shark facts, they just have the word “shark” in them. most of the facts are pretty cool! but the rest were just so barely related to sharks i had to sit there and connect the dots for a second.
give me $5, a celsius, and access to all the resources national geographic does, and i GUARANTEE YOU i could put out a better collection of facts within 48 hours.

[Becky B · Rating 3 out of 5]

A collection of random facts about different species of sharks and shark-related things around the world.

Shark books are always in high demand in our libraries as are Weird But True titles, so this will probably be constantly checked out. I felt like it was a little odd to include so many prehistoric shark best guesses as facts as those theories are constantly being revised as more fossils are found, and it also felt odd to include several Jaws movie tidbits in a book aimed at kids too young to watch that movie (though the facts they did include were appropriate for the target audience, like how much the fake shark weighed). I wish it had more information on different species currently in our world (I feel like more of those facts could've easily swapped out with the Jaws ones), but I'm also sure choosing what goes into a book like this must be extremely hard.

[Natalie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Weird but true books are super popular in our library just because the photos are really good, the facts are plentiful and weird/odd/surprising, making it a quick read. Shark lovers are sure to enjoy this one.

[Haley · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fun read, but a few things I read contradicted what some experts on Shark Week said. I also didn't like the phrasing "scientists think they might." I realize scientists are constantly learning new things about sharks, but this phrasing made the information I was reading feel unreliable.

[Raechel · Rating 4 out of 5]

Amazing facts about sharks and other things related to sharks. It's definitely a good place to start looking and learning about sharks. The pictures included were both educational and at times humorous.

[Alex · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not my favorite in the series.

[T. · Rating 4 out of 5]

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[blueygurl2016 · Rating 2 out of 5]

Some of this book was interesting but about half of the facts were so random that they could barely even be called facts about sharks. I mean, for crying out loud, one of the things they were calling a fact about "sharks" was really a fact about the song "Baby Shark." Basically they threw in a bunch of random facts that if it had a name shark in it, they used it. I'm honestly surprised they didn't have a fact about the Shark vacuum that is literally how random some of the "facts" mentioned in this book were. And there were also a lot of facts about prehistoric sharks. Most of these mentioned, I have never heard of. Maybe the facts about the megalodon were fine since that one is famous and most people have heard of that one, but the others were so bizarre that they honestly sounded made up. But, I did think it was scarily cool that a bull shark has traveled as far north as St. Louis. Imagine going to St. Louis and you just see this random shark, lol.