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13½ Incredible Things You Need to Know About Everything
176 pp.
| DK |
September, 2017 |
TradeISBN 978-1-4654-6112-4$24.99
(4)
4-6
This browsable compendium serves up random trivia on eighty wide-ranging subjects. Each busy, colorful double-page spread focuses on a topic, including earth science, plants, animals, communication, water, philosophy, ancient civilizations, movies, helicopters, and much more. Crisp photos compete for attention with thirteen numbered bits of information about that topic plus the gimmicky fact #13 ½ (a.k.a fourteen), which "busts a myth and tells you the total truth." Glos., ind.