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Scholastic Zany Miscellany: A Mixed-Up Encyclopedia of Fun Facts!
Incredible facts and features pair with innovative design to break the popular reference mold!
This zany miscellany isn't an ordinary encyclopedia by any measure. It's a collection of crazy, mixed-up, and highly addictive facts for young readers.
Inside, kids will find thousands of strange, interesting, and incredible facts served up in a completely random style, perfect for a generation born net-surfing. Bright, colorful layouts draw the reader into a web of information, and wormholes scattered throughout the text encourage readers to leap from spread to spread.
This zany miscellany isn't an ordinary encyclopedia by any measure. It's a collection of crazy, mixed-up, and highly addictive facts for young readers.
Inside, kids will find thousands of strange, interesting, and incredible facts served up in a completely random style, perfect for a generation born net-surfing. Bright, colorful layouts draw the reader into a web of information, and wormholes scattered throughout the text encourage readers to leap from spread to spread.
- GenresNonfiction
112 pages, Hardcover
First published November 1, 2008
6 people want to read
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Tom Jackson
650 books58 followers"I'm a non-fiction author and project editor (plus I do a bit of journalism). I'm available for project development, writing, project management and I also work as a packager. Click on the links above to see examples of my work.
But first some background: Over the last 20 years, I've written books, magazine and newspaper articles, for online and for television. I get to write about a wide range of subjects, everything from axolotls to zoroastrianism. However, my specialties are natural history, technology and all things scientific. I've worked on projects with Brian May, Patrick Moore, Marcus de Sautoy and Carol Vorderman and for major international publishers, such as Dorling Kindersley, National Geographic, Scholastic, Hachette, Facts on File and BBC Magazines.
I spend my days finding fun ways of communicating all kinds of facts, new and old, to every age group and reading ability. I live in Bristol, England, with my wife and three children. I studied zoology at Bristol University and have had spells working at the zoos in Jersey and Surrey. I used to be something of a conservationist, which included planting trees in Somerset, surveying Vietnamese jungle and rescuing buffaloes from drought-ridden Zimbabwe. Writing jobs have also taken me to the Galápagos Islands, the Amazon rainforest, the coral reefs of Indonesia and the Sahara Desert. Nowadays, I can be found mainly in the attic."
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But first some background: Over the last 20 years, I've written books, magazine and newspaper articles, for online and for television. I get to write about a wide range of subjects, everything from axolotls to zoroastrianism. However, my specialties are natural history, technology and all things scientific. I've worked on projects with Brian May, Patrick Moore, Marcus de Sautoy and Carol Vorderman and for major international publishers, such as Dorling Kindersley, National Geographic, Scholastic, Hachette, Facts on File and BBC Magazines.
I spend my days finding fun ways of communicating all kinds of facts, new and old, to every age group and reading ability. I live in Bristol, England, with my wife and three children. I studied zoology at Bristol University and have had spells working at the zoos in Jersey and Surrey. I used to be something of a conservationist, which included planting trees in Somerset, surveying Vietnamese jungle and rescuing buffaloes from drought-ridden Zimbabwe. Writing jobs have also taken me to the Galápagos Islands, the Amazon rainforest, the coral reefs of Indonesia and the Sahara Desert. Nowadays, I can be found mainly in the attic."
~http://tomjackson.weebly.com/
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March 11, 2014
This book isn't a story, it’s a mixed-up encyclopedia of fun facts. There is some zany stuff in here that I never thought of. Example, there are some exceptional captivating resourceful words like parapsychology and I am telling you I revolt parapsychology. There are some unbelievable facts in this book like one movie lost 95 million dollars. Finally there are some fascinating pictures in this zany book.
Why I pick up this book is because when you see the cover page it has some weird stuff on it, there is a moon, a lion, a brain and a soccer. For a bizarre reason in my point of view the brain didn't catch my attention, the soccer ball did. But when I saw all of them together I wondered, what this book is about. And the title just makes you wonder more than after a couple of pages I was hooked. It was fascinating!
The reason I finished the book is because when you read a page it's entertaining and the next page just gets better and better. The facts in here are some you never thought of asking.
The book title is appropriate for it accurately describe the contents of the book because zany might not be exactly how to describe it but it’s exactly right.
I guess the book's purpose and what the author set out to achieve is that if you put your mind to it you could do anything. I got that because the book is tell us the best this the best that and it's showing us from all the winners that everyone is good at something but you must find that thing.
I don't think there is anything wrong with this book, maybe some people will call it disorganize but I call it surprising.
I think this is the most I have learned from a book ever and it was fun reading.
I would recommend the book to Markus because I think he would enjoy this book because he likes crazy and fun stuff and he likes learning new stuff but it depends on what it is.
Why I pick up this book is because when you see the cover page it has some weird stuff on it, there is a moon, a lion, a brain and a soccer. For a bizarre reason in my point of view the brain didn't catch my attention, the soccer ball did. But when I saw all of them together I wondered, what this book is about. And the title just makes you wonder more than after a couple of pages I was hooked. It was fascinating!
The reason I finished the book is because when you read a page it's entertaining and the next page just gets better and better. The facts in here are some you never thought of asking.
The book title is appropriate for it accurately describe the contents of the book because zany might not be exactly how to describe it but it’s exactly right.
I guess the book's purpose and what the author set out to achieve is that if you put your mind to it you could do anything. I got that because the book is tell us the best this the best that and it's showing us from all the winners that everyone is good at something but you must find that thing.
I don't think there is anything wrong with this book, maybe some people will call it disorganize but I call it surprising.
I think this is the most I have learned from a book ever and it was fun reading.
I would recommend the book to Markus because I think he would enjoy this book because he likes crazy and fun stuff and he likes learning new stuff but it depends on what it is.
October 21, 2014
This was amazing but kind of gross there were some many random facts about pretty much everything. One of the most interesting facts was that in curling the people with the broom melt the ice making the stone go on longer. If you like to be a wacko and say all sorts of random facts or what to learn about interesting facts this is the book.
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