Author: Paige Towler
Illustrator: Andy Smith
Ages: 8+ years
Price: £8.99
Format: Paperback
Extent: 208 pages
Trim size: 207 x 153 mm
Pub date: 6th Feb 2025
ISBN: 9781804661659
Author Paige Towler is an author and editor based in Washington, D.C., USA. A former editor for National Geographic Kids Books, she writes poetry about animals doing yoga, weird facts about the world and silly stories about snakes and bats.
Illustrator
Andy Smith is an award-winning illustrator, and studied illustration at the University of Brighton and the Royal College of Art, London. His work combines illustration and typography to create images that have humour, energy and optimism executed with a handmade, hand-printed, tactile feel. When not working, Andy can be found in the studio, screen printing books and posters.
‘Gruesomely captivating.’ Guardian
Step into Gross FACTopia!, a wonderland of disgusting facts!
• Paperback edition of the bestselling Gross FACTopia!, which has sold 35,000 copies to date.
• Every one of the 400 facts in this book is linked, and you can choose your own path through this delightfully disgusting web of information.
• Makes connections between a vast range of topics, including revolting Rome, terrible toilets, icky insects, unusual foods, stinky animals, malodorous Middle Ages, slimy sea creatures, and more.
• Features more than 300 fabulously witty colour illustrations and photographs.
• Every fact is verified by Britannica.
• Perfect for reluctant readers.
Did you know that sloths poo only once a week? Or that poo from crocodiles was sometimes used as make-up in ancient Rome? Or that ancient Romans sometimes purchased vials of gladiator sweat? Or that apes and monkeys sweat from their armpits just like humans do? Welcome to Gross FACTopia!, a wonderland of fantastically foul facts, all of which are verified by Encyclopaedia Britannica! Every fact in this book is linked to the next in an ingenious trail of information, where you will slither from topic to topic in surprising and stomachchurning ways. Sometimes your path branches, and you can catapult forwards or creep backwards to a totally different (but still connected) part of the book. Follow your curiosity (and your nose) through this ridiculously revolting world of facts!
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