At last, a series that tells children what they want to know about Ireland, whether they are visiting on holiday, learning about Ireland at school, bored at the airport or want to learn more about their Irish heroes. Pick Your Brains about Ireland and find out its: Vital facts and figures * History in a nutshell * Local customs * Fabulous builidings and sights * Great inventors, artists, writers and scientists * Food and drink * Incredible festivals and the stories behind them * Sport * Good books and wicked websites * Phrases in gaelic such as 'my parents will pay!'.
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"Let you children impress poolside companions and dinner guest on your Costa holiday by spouting amusing anecdotes and informative tidbits about Spainish life and society, all harvested from this jolly piece of literature."
Pick Your Brains about Spain - Observer
"Fun and easily accessible...a witty series"
- The Times
"Pick Your Brains is a fun, fact-filled series...The perfect antidote to plane, train or automobile rage"
- Irish Independent
"oAny family heading abroad could do far wrse than pack a copy of the excellent Pick Your Brains About. Travel gudie series for children. Excellently designed, each one is written with the benefit of a twelve-year-old 'guest ediotr' to keep the authors clued in to the facts and sights that will intrigue a young reader and drive adults mad with their questions."
- Dermot Bolger, Dublin Evening Herald.
Pick Your Brains about Spain - Observer
"Fun and easily accessible...a witty series"
- The Times
"Pick Your Brains is a fun, fact-filled series...The perfect antidote to plane, train or automobile rage"
- Irish Independent
"oAny family heading abroad could do far wrse than pack a copy of the excellent Pick Your Brains About. Travel gudie series for children. Excellently designed, each one is written with the benefit of a twelve-year-old 'guest ediotr' to keep the authors clued in to the facts and sights that will intrigue a young reader and drive adults mad with their questions."
- Dermot Bolger, Dublin Evening Herald.
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This book is packed with fascinating facts and stories from Ireland; its people, food, customs, language, history, sport, spectacular sights and sounds.
What do you know about:
The Viking Slayer of Clontarf
Irish monuments older than the Egyptian Pyramids
The inventor of the fiber optic, and why the sky is blue
Elbow music!
Gulliver's Travels and Count Dracula
The Father of the American Navy
A village ruled by a goat
"Acting the maggot" and "throwing the head"
Pick Your Brains and find out!
What do you know about:
The Viking Slayer of Clontarf
Irish monuments older than the Egyptian Pyramids
The inventor of the fiber optic, and why the sky is blue
Elbow music!
Gulliver's Travels and Count Dracula
The Father of the American Navy
A village ruled by a goat
"Acting the maggot" and "throwing the head"
Pick Your Brains and find out!
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