Making lists, monstrous laughs and rooms of mystery by various authors

Organise the world into a list of its best bits, tuck into the wit and wacky adventures of favourite storyteller David Walliams, and step into the mysterious rooms at a very strange fairground in a summer selection of new children’s books.

Age 8 plus:

Listified!

Andrew Pettie and Andrés Lozano

Our world is simply awesome… but can you list the best bits?

If that sounds like an impossible task, let this gloriously geeky and gigglesome guide to the most extraordinary parts of the universe take you on a journey that you won’t forget!

Listified! – an outstandingly clever and entertaining book which has been written by journalist, editor and author Andrew Pettie and fabulously illustrated by Andrés Lozano – comes from Britannica Books, an exciting reference imprint for young readers published by a creative partnership between What on Earth Publishing and the famous Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Their mission is to inspire children’s curiosity and passion for learning, offering engaging non-fiction books that you can trust, with experts behind every page, and this mind-blowing collection of three hundred unexpected and ingenious lists is truly a fun and fact-filled reading adventure.

Inquisitive young readers will be will surprised, amazed and amused by the imaginative lists that organise the best bits of the world.

Ever wondered which ten dinosaurs were the largest, and what they weighed… in cats? Or how much of your DNA you share with other animals… and bananas? Discover nine surprising things that have fallen out of the sky, which three animals don’t poo, the eleven languages that are now spoken by only one person and the five things scientists would need to clone a T-rex.

Simply enter the ‘listiverse’ and then get ready to see the world in a whole new way, whether that’s erupting volcanoes, medieval machines, jumping spiders, exploding stars and everything in between.

Listified! organises them into quirky list form for curious children and their friends and family to enjoy with each presented from new and unexpected angles, and brought to life by Lozano’s imaginative and hilarious artwork.

From the human body and prehistoric creatures to planet Earth, outer space and the mysteries beyond, this exhilarating compendium of amazing facts and trivia delivers entertainment for all the family.

(Britannica Books, hardback, £18.99)

Age 8 plus:

Megamonster

David Walliams and Tony Ross

Tuck into the wit and wacky adventures that spill from the pen of multi-million bestselling author David Walliams in a monstrously marvellous new middle grade novel.

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