Children's Encyclopedia: 999 Illustrated Fun Facts

Illustrated Fun Facts, #10

This picture book with over 100 color illustrations is a great teaching tool for your little one and for you. It is illustrated encyclopedia of everything for every kid. The pictures are clear and the colors are nice. If you are ready to challenge your mind and prove to everyone that you are the king of knowledge, then pick up this book and prepare for the ultimate trivia experience. Test your fact knowledge as you look at some of the most captivating facts about planets of our Sun's System, Volcanoes, Dinosaurs, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Sharks, Tigers, Cats, Dogs and Human Body.

Do you know that?

Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune are giants, made up mainly of gas.
Pluto is tiny ball of rock and ice.
Tyrannosaurus Rex was taller than a modern day giraffe and measuring in at half the length of a small blue whale.
Tyrannosaurus rex measured up to 13m (42ft) in length, 4m (13ft) at the hip!
They weighed 8 tons (more than a garbage truck).
A tiger can eat 100 pounds of meat a night: compare that to 400 hamburgers. They need a lot of food because they go days between meals.
Tigers have eyes that are the brightest of any other animal in the world. At dusk, or in the beam of a torch, they blaze back the ambient light with awe-inspiring intensity.
There are an estimated 400 million dogs in the world.
Humans have kept dogs as pets for over 12,000 years.
A cat’s heart beats nearly twice as fast as a human heart, at 110 to 140 beats a minute.
Cats have 32 muscles that control the outer ear (humans have only 6). A cat can independently rotate its ears 180 degrees.
The whale shark is the largest fish. No fish is bigger than this 40-foot-long whale shark. The 30-foot-long basking shark is the second largest.
Bull sharks are one of the only species that can live in fresh water.
Sharks seem to be more threatened by vertical height than length, and quick, sudden movements are more likely to provoke attack.
The jaws of bigger sharks are about twice as powerful as the jaws of a lion.

As you read this book over and over to your child it won't be long before they are the ones pointing to the picture and telling you what it is. The author Katy Gleit wrote this book for her own two grandchildren Dani and Deia: In "Children's Encyclopedia: 999 Illustrated Fun Facts" your children are given a well-selected knowledge along with entertaining information about the world.