500 Things You Didn't Know

Want to know how to speak like a spy, make a balloon sword, or hypnotize a chicken? This is the book for you. From the weird and wonderful to the hilarious and record breaking, it’s packed with more than 500 fun facts and intriguing things that every kid should know.

Dominique Enright is a freelance writer and editor. Her previous works include The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill and The Wicked Wit of Jane Austen, and she is also the compiler and editor of selections from the verse of Burns, Keats, Kipling, and Wordsworth. Guy MacDonald has co-written a series of children's fiction books called An Awfully Beastly Business about a werewolf boy who climbs trees, makes campfires and, given the chance, could almost certainly fold a single piece of paper at least seven times.