Our 2nd book of facts about bizarre feats of the human, material and natural world. It is a solid reference work of the strange but true. It shows the world through Ripley’s eyes as something that is wonderful and weird, awesome in its variety, jaw-dropping in its uniqueness. This book juxtaposes the quirky, bizarre, outrageous world of people with the pure fascination of the natural and physical world.
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Grade 3-7–The cover challenges readers to Take a look at the world's weirdest facts, and the interior text and attention-grabbing color photos do not disappoint. This is an encyclopedic volume of oddities from Ripley's vast collection. A history of the collection created by New York Globe sports columnist Robert Ripley in 1928 to the present anchors the main text of the book. Categories include Off the Wall, Animal Antics, Taking Life to Extremes, and Life in the Fast Lane, creating a reality TV fan's dream. Random globe icons highlight unusual laws of the U.S. in the midst of a listing of the facts. The illustrations, however, may not be the best choice for impressionable or unsupervised children. The Was That a Good Idea? section pictures a performance artist doing handstands at 3000 feet. The Totally Obsessed chapter features the world's most pierced woman and insertion of nylon threads through eye ducts; All-Consuming highlights pictures of Matthew Biancaniello eating just about anything. Fascinating fare for the Fear Factor generation, but not for the weak-stomached, this volume delivers more than its share of weirdness, but buyer beware.–Mary Elam, Forman Elementary School, Plano, TX
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Ripley Publishing, the owner of the internationally famous trademark Ripley's Believe It or Not! As world authority on all that is unbelievable, the company offers up its vast archives of the strange and unusual through books, television shows, tourist attractions, motion pictures, merchandise and the worldwide syndication of its daily newspaper cartoon. Ripley researchers across the globe are busy each day digging deep into the world of the odd and bizarre to compile enough fresh an exciting material to fill the Believe It or Not! series of books published each year
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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A Kid's Review
This review is from: Ripley's Believe It Or Not! Planet Eccentric (Hardcover)
I thought this book was pretty good. It was VERY interesting, funny, and I learned a lot from it.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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Ripley's continues to amuse,amaze and astonish us all.,
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This review is from: Ripley's Believe It Or Not! Planet Eccentric (Hardcover)
This is another in the long list of unbelievable books filled with things that are strange,weird,astounding,that the staff of Ripley's Believe It or Not have collected from all over the world.The real fun thing with a book like this is ,just when you finish reading about one thing,you turn the page,and something even more amazing turns up.
It is a big book of 255 pages,with many hundreds of photographs.It would be exciting enough to read about these things;but having colored photographs along side,makes these things even more astounding. The book is of excellent constrution,with first class paper,printing and color rendition.It is hard to criticize anything about this book;but I can't pass on one thing.For some unknown reason,someone,probably in the art department,has deemed it necessary to overprint with text on top of photographs and illustrations.Examples are numerous and can be seen on pages116,117,124,141,and as well as numerous small items such as Kitty Kapers and A Dog's Life on pages 146 and 147,where this overprinting serves no purpose other than to make for difficult reading.This is not only pointless,but irritating to the reader as well. That criticism aside,this is an excellent book,and bound to interest young and old alike.
8 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
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A Kid's Review
This review is from: Ripley's Believe It Or Not! Planet Eccentric (Hardcover)
Ripley is back with more wierd facts.Thereare the wierdest facts in this book.With only 8 chapters one might think they are not goingto learn alot.You'd be surprised about the information packed in 8 chapters.So you should read this book. If you also like books with many different characters get this book because it probloby has more than 100 characters.My opinion is that this book is a good book if you like books with wierd facts.
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