FACTopia!: Follow the Trail of 400 Facts...
FACTopia!: Follow the Trail of 400 Facts...
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Annotation: Welcome to FACTopia! , a wonderland of crazily connected facts. Choose your own path through this hilarious world of 400... more
Genre: [Other sciences]
 
Reviews: 1
Catalog Number: #289306
Format: Publisher's Hardcover
Publisher: Britannica Books
Copyright Date: 2021
Edition Date: 2021 Release Date: 05/04/21
Illustrator: Smith, Andy,
Pages: 207 pages
ISBN: 1-912920-71-9
ISBN 13: 978-1-912920-71-6
Dewey: 031.02
LCCN: 2021289501
Dimensions: 22 cm
Language: English
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Kirkus Reviews

Free association rules in this gathering of hundreds of facts about science, technology, and the natural world.Strung along a single long, fine dotted line that meanders irregularly across each page from first to last, the one- or two-sentence factoids and observations veer from topic to topic but are linked by a key word or concept. The fact, for instance, that a rectangle has four sides leads to the note that there are four species of giraffe, then to the information that a group of giraffes is a "tower," that the Eiffel Tower gets 60 tons of paint slapped on it every seven years, that cave artists added the mineral mica to their paint, that fluoride is a mineral, and so on and on. As one way to vary the pace of the onslaught of trivia, the line occasionally forks to send readers to a related sequence on another page, and as another, the illustrations mix bright stock photos and Smith's comical cartoon figures in a broad range of sizes. Readers with attention spans on the short side may indeed find plenty of, as Hale promises, "mind-blowing, wow-worthy and crazily cool" facts, but the arbitrary ordering will quickly lead to informational overload with any sustained exposure. Alas, the "FACTopians" provide no sources beyond a slew of unidentified URLs at the end-to the various resources' homepages, to boot, so would-be researchers who go to usgs.gov, for example, will be hard-pressed to find out exactly what information was gleaned from there.A real browsers' buffet, though everything on the menu is appetizer sized. (Nonfiction. 6-10)

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Reading Level: 4.0
Interest Level: 4-7
Lexile: IG1020L

Welcome to FACTopia! , a wonderland of crazily connected facts. Choose your own path through this hilarious world of 400 facts, all of which are verified by Encyclopaedia Britannica . Every fact in the book is connected to the next in an ingenious trail of information. Did you know that a squid has a brain shaped like a doughnut? Or that some butterflies drink turtle tears? Hop from topic to topic in unexpected and delightful ways, and discover what connects a giraffe with the Eiffel tower, or a slice of pizza with Cleopatra. On your awe-inspiring journey, you will find out extraordinary facts about space, bones, dinosaurs, spiders, sharks, robots, ancient Rome, and more. And there's not just one trail through these pages: sometimes your path branches and you can choose to jump to a totally different, but still connected, part of the book. Who knows where your curiosity will take you! This wittily illustrated book is the perfect gift to inspire and delight curious children. Includes an index.


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