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Guinness Record Breakers [Hardcover]

Karen Romano Young (Author, Illustrator)
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Guinness Record Breakers
A valuable education tool is packed with cross-curriculum information, applications, and displays of a variety of wacky feats, and utilizes full-color photographs and an exciting design to offer fascinating facts about geography, history, the arts, nature, sports, entertainment, and other fields."

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Have you ever dreamed you could be the best at something? Break a record? Find out how records are set? Meet record breakers? Keep an eye on people who are setting records now? The first Guinness children's book, Guinness Record Breakers tells the stories of real-life record breakers, their ups and downs, the records they've broken, their successes and failures. This eye-popping, action-packed, fact-filled book is also a how-to, full of advice from the record breakers and step-by-step directions to trying for a new record. Read Guinness Record Breakers. Then challenge yourself to run, walk, dance, skate, play or climb your way to a record.

About the Author

Karen Romano Young has written and contributed to many books, magazines and computer programs, including The Guinness Book of World Records, National Geographic World, 3-2-1 Contact, Cricket, and the PBS television program Behind the Scenes. Her most recent book is The Ice's Edge: The Story of a Harp Seal Pup. Young lives in Connecticut with her husband, three children, two cats and one dog.

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 64 pages
  • Publisher: Guinness Records (September 1997)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0965238334
  • ISBN-13: 978-0965238335
  • Product Dimensions: 11 x 8 x 0.3 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,345,834 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastically fun book for kids with curiosity!, September 7, 1999
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Pictures and stories about the things kids love most: the biggest, the fastest, the creepiest, the deadliest. Makes a great gift for the curious child. My own kids' fav was the 22 foot worm!
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5.0 out of 5 stars evry educated testbook, September 29, 1999
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