Everything Under the Sun: All Around the World (Hardcover)
Language: English
Published by Penguin Random House Children's UK, 2025
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Hardcover. A wonderfully global collection of 366 curious questions asked by children from around the world, based on the award-winning podcast by Molly Oldfield.How were rollerskates invented?How do boats float?Do snails go upside down?Where is the happiest place in the world?Discover the answers to all these curious questions - and many more! - asked children from all around the globe.Ponder about why we daydream with author and illustrator Lauren Child. Find out if people can mind read with magician Derren Brown. Learn about everything from wormholes in spacetime to how frogs jump with expert scientists.Illustrated by talented, international artists- Folasade Adeshida, Neil Badenhorst, Belinda Chen, Sophie Escavy Lim, Marta Antelo, Fernando Martin, Juliana Eigner, Andres Landazabal, Henry Rancourt, Francesca Tiley, Daniel Gray-Barnett, Meg Rennie Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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- Title
- Everything Under the Sun: All Around the World (Hardcover)
- Author
- Molly Oldfield
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House Children's UK
- Publication year
- 2025
- Condition
- new
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0241619122
- ISBN 13
- 9780241619124
- Illustrator
- Adeshida, Folasade; Antelo, Marta; Badenhorst, Neil; Chen, Belinda; Eigner, Juliana; Lim, Sophie Escavy; Gray-Barnett, Daniel; Landazábal, Andrés; Martin, Fernando; Rancourt, Henry; Rennie, Meg; Tiley, Francesca
Following her first book of questions, Everything Under the Sun, award-winning podcast host Molly Oldfield once again delights readers with this new, beautifully illustrated book answering 366 curious questions asked by children from around the world.
How were rollerskates invented?
How do boats float?
Do snails go upside down?
Where is the happiest place in the world?
Find out the answers to these curious questions from children from all around the globe.
Ponder about why we daydream with author and illustrator, Lauren Child. Find out if people can mind read with magician, Derren Brown. Learn about everything from wormholes in spacetime to how frogs jump with expert scientists.
Illustrated by talented, international artists: Folasade Adeshida, Neil Badenhorst, Belinda Chen, Sophie Escavy Lim, Marta Antelo, Fernando Martin, Juliana Eigner, Andrés Landazabal, Henry Rancourt, Francesca Tiley, Daniel Gray-Barnett, Meg Rennie
Praise for Everything Under the Sun:
'Trivia fans will relish Everything Under the Sun' - The Guardian
"A wonderful gift for families" - Evening Standard
"This is a book to treasure all year round" - My Baba
"As cute as it is educational" - Babyccino Kids
"A wonderful collection of 366 curious questions about everything from science to nature, dinosaurs to space" - Scottish Sun
"Simply mesmerising compendium" - Waterstones
"A beautiful gem of a book" - BookTrust
"Fascinating for anyone who opens it" - Red magazine
"The only thing better than the questions, in this delightful and informative book, is the answers" - Neil Gaiman
"This book is GLORIOUS. It's heart-and-soul fabulous, page after page" - Stephen Fry
"One of the best kids books I have ever had the pleasure of reading" - Pandora Sykes
"This book is heaven on a stick" - Sophie Dahl
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About the Author
Molly Oldfield is the host of 'Everything Under the Sun', a weekly podcast answering questions from children all around the world. The podcast went straight to Number 1 on the 'kids and family' Apple podcasts chart, when it launched in November 2018 and it won Bronze for 'Best Family Podcast' at the British Podcast Awards 2019. Molly also writes the weekly Kids' Quiz in the Guardian. She is known as The Original QI Elf and spent twelve years researching and writing questions for the BBC quiz show. She is also the author of several other children's books - The Secret Museum, Wonders of the World's Museums and Natural Wonders of the World.
You can find out information about how to send in questions to the podcast at: www.everythingunderthesun.co.uk
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