Learn it all: Read an extract of Terry Denton’s Really Truly Amazing Guide to Everything by Terry Denton

Learn it all: Read an extract of Terry Denton’s Really Truly Amazing Guide to Everything by Terry Denton

A Very Serious and Terribly Important Note from Professor Terry Denton

Hi there, readers,

Most of us know a LITTLE BIT about a LOT of things. Or a LOT about NOT MANY things. But I know QUITE A BIT about ALMOST everything!

I bet you didn’t even know I was a professor. Well, neither did I. But I am! My bird, my horse and my giant spider said so.

In fact, everyone knows me as the PROFESSOR OF ALMOST EVERYTHING. I’ll admit, there’s SOME stuff I know nothing about. Stuff like make-up and fashion, car repair, flying a plane, open-heart surgery, closed-heart surgery and gorilla training . . .

But I looked all the OTHER STUFF up. And I think you’ll agree that it’s all VERY interesting.

In this book you will learn about:

THE UNIVERSE, which is very, very, very, very, very, very big. It has billions of huge round things moving in (sort of) circles around billions of other even huger round things.

PLANET EARTH, which is also very big and full of flaming molten iron. Yet somehow it doesn’t burn up.

LIFE on Earth, including weird animals like birds and horses, and bugs and teeny weeny bacteria, most of which are trying to eat you.

The HUMAN BODY and how the parts work . . . or don’t work. Or epically fail.

All the COOL STUFF that humans invented and made with their brainy brains and fingery hands.

There’s even a whole chapter about TIME, except it’s complicated, and I don’t understand any of it. And after I have explained it, neither will you.

So stop reading my very serious and terribly important note and start reading the . . . Really Truly Amazing Guide to Everything and you will become a Professor of (almost) Everything too.

Continue reading the extract here. . .

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Publisher details

Terry Denton's Really Truly Amazing Guide to Everything
Author
Terry Denton
Publisher
Puffin Books
Genre
Children’s Picture Book
Released
03 November, 2020
ISBN
9781760898922

Synopsis

A mini book of facts packed with maximum humour! Sure to engage anyone from the ages of 8 to 80 (and beyond), this is a funny, fascinating whistle-stop tour of the history and science of the universe, life on Earth, the ins and outs of biology, geography, geology and the weather, how life evolved and how it works, and how people use chemistry and the forces of nature to create amazing things. There’s even a chapter on time! Get ready to laugh and be amazed.
Terry Denton
About the author

Terry Denton

Terry Denton has been creating children’s books for over 30 years. He has worked with many of Australia's top authors, written much-loved picture books and junior fiction novels, won more than 40 children’s choice awards and been shortlisted many times in the Children’s Book Council of Australia awards. His Felix and Alexander won Picture Book of the Year in 1986. His books include The Upside-down History of Downunder with Alison Lloyd, The Worm Who Knew Karate with Jill Lever, as well as the Gasp! books and the animated TV series, and the world-famous Just! books and Treehouse series with Andy Griffiths. His work is characterised by a devious sense of humour, an adventurous and inventive drawing style and an informed flair for what interests and amuses kids.

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