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5,000 Awesome Facts (About Everything!) (National Geographic Kids) Hardcover – Illustrated, August 14, 2012

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"Filled with photographs, this beautifully designed book is organized into two-page spreads that each focus on a different topic, making it easy and fun to read." --Redding.com

Presenting the next must-have, fun-filled gift book from the team that created Ultimate Weird But True, 5,000 Cool Facts About Everything treats kids to brain candy and eye candy all rolled into one treasure trove of high-interest fascinating facts.

Lively and information-packed, this book is literally busting its covers with fascinating, fun-tastic facts on super, sensational topics that kids love. Who knew that there were so many sweet things to learn about chocolate or that a dozen delicious details about peanut butter would show up on a page with a few splotches of jelly to whet our appetites? Keep turning and a terrifyingly toothy shark tells you all about himself, while other spreads lay out tons of tips on toys and games, mysteries of history, robots and reptiles, sports and spies, wacky words, and so much more! A visual feast of colorful photographs surrounded by swirling, tipping, expanding, and climbing bits of information in a high-energy design, this book will satisfy both the casual browser and the truly fact obsessed.

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"Filled with photographs, this beautifully designed book is organized into two-page spreads that each focus on a different topic, making it easy and fun to read." --Redding.com

"From 15 peanut butter facts that stick and 50 furry facts about bears to 100 facts about oceans to make your head swim, this big, colorful, packed-to-the-brim compendium is sure to fascinate, entertain, and be a source of great conversations to everyone who takes a look." --ReadKiddoRead blog

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NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC KIDS inspires young adventurers to explore the world through award-winning magazines, books, website, apps, games, toys, television series and events and is the only kids brand with a world-class scientific organization at its core.

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ASIN : 1426310498
Publisher : National Geographic Kids; Illustrated edition (August 14, 2012)
Language: : English
Hardcover : 224 pages
ISBN-10 : 9781426310492
ISBN-13 : 978-1426310492
Reading age : 8 - 12 years
Lexile measure : 1060L
Grade level : 3 - 7
Item Weight : 2.95 pounds
Dimensions : 9.55 x 0.85 x 12.25 inches

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Floyd Brown

Buyer Beware

Reviewed in the United States on June 20, 2019

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Buyer Beware: I was shocked to see what National Geographic considers are"Facts". Facts are defined as Reality or Truth, according to the dictionary. For example, the book has two pages on "Facts about Paranormal Activity", such as, Necromancy, Quija Boards, Tarot cards, ghosts, palm reading, shape-shifters, and more.
This was on the first page I looked at, and as I looked through the book, there were also other questionable topics presented as 'Facts" to kids.
I am returning this book.

302 people found this helpful

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Betsy

I think it is better for older kids

Reviewed in the United States on June 11, 2017

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The print is very small. Not kid friendly. I think it is better for older kids, in the middle school grades.

145 people found this helpful

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bubblez2187Top Contributor: Pets

Great book

Reviewed in the United States on December 28, 2017

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My 10 year old son loves this book and all the fun facts in it. There are things about food, animals, history, survival skills, math, human body, robots etc. He loves learning about how things work and why they do what they do and this book covers all that. It is a nice big hardback book and I am impressed at the quality and the price. Very glad I got him this.

74 people found this helpful

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Joe Llama

Well Done But Heads Up.

Reviewed in the United States on August 20, 2014

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Overall this book is excellent - the pictures, the content, the excitement that jumps off of every page. One of our favorite things about this book is how it has inspired questions and discussions between our children and my wife and I about various subjects. We love seeing our kids learning about not only new things but also things that really fascinate them and excite them about life.

With that said we also have come across subjects that have not been age-appropriate and maybe not at all appropriate for certain households. There was a section about necromancy, ouija boards, haunted houses, palm reading, tarot cards, and the likes. There also have been other sections where we had to use the power of distraction or skim over some things for the kids. Not sure why or how these random subjects happened to find themselves in this book but they are there. Most of the book is great and has interesting content about animals, nature, senses, etc. I'm just writing this review to give other parents a heads up about this too.

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Ryott

Many good facts, but not so engaging to read

Reviewed in the United States on June 22, 2019

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The title of my review might sound contradictory, but this is exactly what I found out with this book: it has many great facts, but somehow neither I or my 7 year old son (who LOVES fact books) ever feel like reading. I think the book's main problem is that it tries to provide so many facts that it becomes difficult to approach.

As an example, look at the facts about sharks. It is so much information, with so small font, that I feel like I am reading a prescription drug disclaimer. Yes, fact 33 about sharks, "Port Jackson sharks use their flattened teeth to feed on shellfish and sea urchins" might be a very interesting fact for other people, but by the time I get to that line I really could not care less. Fact 39, "Far more people are killed each year by dogs, elephants, and bess than by sharks!" is way more interesting. I probably would have preferred that fact to have way more space, and a picture of a puppy next to a shark. Now I would be entertained!

Not every page is like this, though. As a good example, the "25 Red Hot Facts" page shows mixture of small facts that are interesting and well illustrated. Knowing that the Sahara is almost as big as USA is definitely interesting. And call me simple, but having a picture of the desert enhances the whole feeling of reading the book.

I think I would have preferred this book to be "500 awesome facts" and have just a selection of facts, with better illustrations. Overall, I still rate it 4-stars just due to the effort they put to collect all the information, and just the massive amount of information on it; but I would like if I said we read it often.

29 people found this helpful

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TMH

Before you buy look at supplier ratings!

Reviewed in the United States on January 20, 2018

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Great looking book, and will be read by son, however as a new book, there should not be any ripped pages. A page in the middle of the book had two rips and the page was folded. Also this large hardback book arrived without a cover!!!

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Christine

Very cool and fun book

Reviewed in the United States on January 4, 2018

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Our office participates in buying gifts for abused children placed in a temporary home. The boy was interested in weird science facts so I purchased a few of these types of books. Of course, when I got them, I had to flip through. :)

This book was so much fun. I thought that it would actually be perfect to get for my dad because he is a trivia buff. Excellent book for old and young alike!!! Would definitely purchase again.

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Bethany Aldridge

Great birthday gift

Reviewed in the United States on January 21, 2017

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This is my go to gift for children's birthdays. Kids get so many toys and clothes that I always like to try something a bit different. The pictures are colorful and the facts are very interesting and straight forward. I usually buy this for kids 7 and up. That's seems to be a good age fir the reading level.
I had a mom thank me for the gift a few weeks after giving it because she said that the book made her boy excited to read!

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Mrs D

Very American

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 24, 2019

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Heavy leaning on American Facts. Would have been more balanced and useful taking in Facts of other countries

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I.A

Great book, some questionable pages.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 21, 2019

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Purchased for an 8 year old who loves it. There are some weird parts about ouiji boards and ghosts though. But if that concerns you, you can always get rid of those pages. Some facts are very adult e.g. certain rulers dying in a specific (maybe disturbing) way. Overall, I would say this a good educational book.

12 people found this helpful

foxycub

Great for playing games

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 9, 2020

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I use this book for playing a fact-based game with my kids. To play you simply pick a page from the book and then read two real facts from that page whilst making a third one up. The other players have to guess which of the three facts has been made up. Kids really love it.

9 people found this helpful

Djilly L.

Book was a rare miss

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 20, 2018

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Got it for our 8-year old daughter that reads a lot and rarely stops asking questions. Hoped she would give me a break and start to look for answers herself in this book.
But she browsed through its once or twice and refuses to pick it up since.
Too much text and a lack of funny graphics I suppose.

7 people found this helpful

sherriffstar

Very interesting and factual educational experience

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 3, 2020

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Bought 2 copies of these for grandchildren one aged 8 and the other aged 5. Both love reading them, very well illustrated and knowledge they can carry all there life. Theyre still reading and enjoying them. A deviation from story time books so kids enjoy short snappy facts. An interesting and worthwhile book for kids. 5 stars from me.

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