Smarties
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Every child knows that Dinosaurs were the biggest and fiercest creatures that ever lived. In this book you discover that they could also be very smelly, awfully clumsy and routinely outsmarted by cheese. Did you know? The biggest rat that ever lived was 2m long and looked like a small hairy hippopotamus; A baby Diplodocus grew by the same amount as your body weight every two weeks; Some people believe that Elasmosaurus might still survive in Loch Ness in Scotland; In Smarties Deadly Dinosaurs we unearth the real and unbelievable facts about the dinosaurs...the biggest, the loudest, the fastest, the stupidest, the smelliest. There's even a dino that was named after Elvis Presley. See what the dino fantasy football team would have looked like. And of course, why did they all disappear so suddenly?
In a world of dazzling extremes, Smarties Wacky World looks at why our planet is such a beautiful, mysterious and very funny place to live. Did you know? The highest ever wave was over 85m high; The Earth's core is hotter than the surface of the sun; The largest snow flakes that have ever fallen were 38cm across and 20cm thick; We dig deep underground to see what Earth is really made of, climb the world's soggiest mountain, where the rain stops for just ten days each year and visit the driest desert, where it hasn't rained for centuries. We learn about the powerful forces of nature, the highest mountains, the tiniest atoms, the fastest speeds. Then journey into outer space in search of black holes and extraterrestrial life.
This book will prove to children that their body is simply amazing, with masses of parts, some of them very strange and others incredibly yucky. Did you know that you have over 5 million hairs on your body - as many as a gorilla? And you produce a litre of spit every day. Smarties Hairy Humens explores our bodies inside and out. It also checks out the weird and wonderful things we've been up to over the last few thousand years. From the Ice Age to what you ate for breakfast, and from the shortest person who ever lived to the man with the longest hair. Did you know? Every square centimetre of your skin has 2.9 million cells; King Louis XIV of France had only three baths in his whole lifetime; Humans could ski before they could ride; For the vital low-down on ear wax, the highest bungee jump, or when the first traffic jam took place, look no further, this is the place to find it!
From the top of the tallest mountain to the bottom of the deepest ocean Smarties Beautiful Beasties contains a great menagerie of the fastest, the noisiest, the smelliest, the most dangerous, the hairiest...and the most peculiar creatures in the animal kingdom. Catch a glimpse of killer frogs and exploding hedgehogs. Discover a cat that can swim faster than an Olympic athlete, and size up the biggest pair of feet you've ever seen. Did you know? The Venezuelan skunk frog is the smelliest creature in the world; 300 people really were eaten alive by piranha fish in 1981, when their boat capsized; A tiger can swim nine times faster than the Olympic record holder; There's even a seven-tonne baby that can swallow a swimming pool in one gulp, in this colourful, fact-filled stampede through our animal world.