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"Millions of people visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe's iconic webcomic. His stick-figure drawings about science, technology, language, and love have a large and passionate following. Fans of xkcd ask Munroe a lot of strange questions. What if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90 percent the speed of light? How fast can you hit a speed bump while driving and live? If there was a robot apocalypse, how long would humanity last? In...
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Series
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
176 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Uses a question and answer format to share facts about the habits, preferences, and abilities of typical kids to enable readers to determine if their own characteristics are mainstream or distinctive, in a volume that introduces the idea that "normal" is a relative concept.
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Series
Publisher
Sterling Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations, color map ; 21 x 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
A fact-filled introduction to the American Revolution that illuminates popular myths while providing coverage of such topics as the dispute over tea prices, the reasons the British were called lobsters, and the first-ever combat submarine. Includes timeline.
9) Don't know much about history: everything you need to know about American history, but never learned
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Series
Language
English
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"From Columbus through to the twenty-first century, Don't Know Much About History takes readers on a tour through more than 500 years of American life. Drawing on the latest scholarship and new archaeological discoveries, Davis presents a thorough overview of American history that is exciting, interesting and fun to learn"--Publisher's description.
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
c2013.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
192 pages : color illustrations, maps, charts ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
A vibrantly illustrated treasury of amazing facts about subjects ranging from animals and the human body to architecture and outer space combines CGI images with such entries that examine the moon's comparative size to Australia and the massive dimensions of a whale's heart.
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 159 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"The New York Public Library staff answers questions remarkable and preposterous, with illustrations by Barry Blitt. Have you've ever wondered if you can keep an octopus in a private home? Do you spend your time thinking about how much Napoleon's brain weighed? If so, Peculiar Questions and Practical Answers is the book for you. The New York Public Library has been fielding questions like these ever since it was founded in 1895. Of course, some of...
Author
Publisher
Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Pub. Date
©1998
Physical Desc
752 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Taking Trivial Pursuit to the extreme, this book offers trivia buffs hours of toil testing their knowledge and fact finding skills with a huge collection of intriguing but little-known facts.
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Publisher
Southwestern Co
Pub. Date
©2002
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
A collection of facts and trivia about human physiology and anatomy, usually framed in a question and answer format, such as "Do you know when the body grows fastest?", "Do you know if bones are made of jelly?, and "Do you know why skin only lasts for four weeks"?
14) Rocks & minerals
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Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2010.
Physical Desc
46 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Asks readers true or false questions about rocks and minerals and provides an answer on the page following each.
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
A nose for digging? Ears for seeing? Eyes that squirt blood? Explore the many amazing things animals can do with their ears, eyes, mouths, noses, feet, and tails in this interactive guessing book, beautifully illustrated in cut-paper collage, which was awarded a Caldecott Honor.
This title has been selected as a Common Core Text Exemplar (Grades K-1, Read Aloud Informational Text).
16) Angry birds playground: question & answer book : a who, what, where, when, why, and how adventure
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Series
Publisher
National Geographic Society
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
128 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A treasury of questions and answers featuring Rovio's popular Angry Bird characters encourages readers to seek the correct answers to big questions about things in the everyday world.
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Series
Would you rather ...? for kids volume 5
Publisher
Seven Footer Press
Pub. Date
©2013
Physical Desc
vii, 215 pages : illustrations ; 16 cm.
Language
English
Description
Poses a new selection of edgy questions designed to promote fun and creative thought, including "Would you rather wear starched and ironed underwear for a month or use poison-ivy as toilet paper once?"
19) Big book of how
Author
Publisher
Liberty Street, an imprint of Time Inc. Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Second edition.
Physical Desc
192 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Provides answers to a diverse collection of over one thousand commonly asked questions, covering such areas as animals, buildings, transportation, food, the human body, and going green.
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