The Book of Comparisons: Sizing up the world around you

By Author / Illustrator

Clive Gifford, Paul Boston

Genre

Adventure

Age range(s)

Publisher

The Ivy Press

ISBN

9781782405580

Format

Hardback

Published

21-06-2018

Synopsis

**SAINSBURY'S CHILDREN'S BOOK AWARD 2018 WINNER - LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT CATEGORY**

How many people could fit on a blue whale's tongue? Is a hovercraft faster than a tank? And what grows quicker - toenails or fingernails?

Discover the answer to these questions and so much more in The Book of Comparisons. Brimming with incredible facts to wow your family and friends with, this book will help you to understand extraordinary things in our world, by comparing them with other things!

Through awesome comparisons, you'll learn about:

The strongest animals

The fastest vehicles

The biggest poopers in the world

The most extreme journeys ever taken

The awesome power of natural forces

Filled with amazingly detailed illustrations and fascinating nuggets of information to 'wow' family and friends with, this fact-packed book is sure to keep the whole family entertained.

Absorbing, entertaining, and surprising, once you've learned how comparisons can work, you'll never look at the world in the same way again!

Did you know that you can fit two football teams on the tongue of a blue whale? Did you know that the Samoan moss spider is as small as a grain of salt? Find out about these - and lots, lots more amazing information - in The Book of Comparisons. Perfect for fact fans! - The Week Junior

This lovely book, with great illustrations by Paul Boston, is packed full of the sort of facts children love. The large pages are stuffed with extraordinary details, comparing everything from animals, to space to machines. Aimed at 7+, this seems like a book that could last for years, as it is so full of interesting little tit bits. - Reading Zone

The Book of Comparisons is a crazy good fact nugget tomb! - WRD Magazine

A lavishly illustrated, 90-page compendium of the sort of jaw-dropping statistics which children love to outdo each other. - Daily Telegraph

The Book of Comparisons is so compelling. Gifford finds some brilliant stats to compare and in the process, simplifies science.\" - How it Works magazine

Reviews

This lovely book, with great illustrations by Paul Boston, is packed full of the sort of facts children love. The large pages are stuffed with extraordinary details, comparing everything from animals, to space to machines. Aimed at 7+, this seems like a book that could last for years, as it is so full of interesting little tit bits. Did you know that a cheetah and a Porsche, for example, can both accelerate from 0-70 mph in just 3 seconds? And here is the one that blew my mind; the moon is only slightly narrower than the width of Australia!!! I think it is the combination of all the facts and comparisons with the mass of detailed illustrations, that makes this book so fascinating. There is a page of tiny animal drawings comparing the weight of different animals. All done using pictures you can see that a rabbit weighs the same as 5 hedgehogs or that an elephant weighs the same as 5 rhinoceroses. The facts alone would be interesting but coupled with the pictures it kind of elevates the whole book into something to be pored over and studied intently. There are also some great surprises; on the title page is the drawing of a Goliath bird eating a spider drawn at it's actual size (it is huge!!) and then some pygmy possums on the next page drawn at their actual size (smaller than the spider). There is a useful contents and index and a page of further reading. If you are looking for non-fiction to be read for pleasure than this is the book to do it. Children love these sort of facts; wouldn't you like to know which creatures do the biggest poos? I suspect this book will become a much-enjoyed book in many classrooms. 96 pages / Ages 7+ / Reviewed by Jacqueline Harris.