world records

Presents the biggests, smallests, fastests, longests, and other world records in such categories as the human body, human achievement, life on Earth, engineering, science and technology, arts and media, and sports and games.

Presents world records associated with birds, aviation, weather, and human flight.

Determined to achieve fame by breaking several oddball world records in an upcoming contest, Arlo Moore and his friends practice fiendishly under the disapproval of parents and school principal.

The After School Kids' Care director wants to get into The Guiness Book of World Records, and A. J. and the gang jump in to help him.

Text and humorous illustrations survey some of the biggest, smallest, longest, and fastest things in the world.

Presents world records associated with water sports and craft, marine life, sea voyages and shipwrecks, and the physical aspects of oceans.

Photographs and text provide information about fifteen of history's "firsts," including the first president of the United States, the first Olympic Games, and the first words spoken on the moon.

Tells the story of the first car race in America, on Thanksgiving Day of 1895, in which Frank Duryea, Oscar Mueller, and Jerry O'Conner battled the elements across Chicago for eleven hours to prove the strength and speed of the horseless carriage.

J.J. Smith, the Keeper of the Records for "The Book of Records" has witnessed many extraordinary things in the course of his job, but he has never witnessed true love, until he meets a man who is attempting to eat an entire Boeing 747 to prove his love for a woman.

Biographies of nearly 1,000 women who were the first in their field from the seventeenth century through the twentieth century.