curiosities and wonders

Collects facts, stories, interviews, and photographs profiling bizarre people, places, objects, and events from around the world.

Text and photographs describe remarkable art, food, and festivals, such as a car that transforms into a robot, a fifty-six-pound mushroom, and a hall of fame for cockroaches.

A history of Ripley's Believe It or Not! beginning with its first cartoon in 1918 and with behind-the-scene stories that look at the odd, unusual, and weird.

"Offers suspicious stories, fishy facts, and dubious lists, encouraging readers to determine which facts are true and which are false"--OCLC.

An introduction to aardvarks that discusses their physical characteristics and adaptations, behavior, life cycle, and habitat.

A guide to record breakers with highlighted vocabulary, photographs, and fact boxes that examines the biggest animals, trees, planes, ships, mountains, rivers, buildings, and more.

An introduction to naked mole rats that discusses their physical characteristics and adaptations, behavior, life cycle, and habitat.

An introduction to blowfish that discusses their physical characteristics and adaptations, behavior, life cycle, and habitat.

Text and photographs look at the strange, bizarre, and weird happenings on Earth.

An introduction to markhors that discusses their physical characteristics and adaptations, behavior, life cycle, and habitat.