PSSST! It's True! This is the best book on SPACE you'll ever read!Thinking of space travel? Watch out for exploding stars, boiling planets and robotic explorers. Beware of black holes, white dwarfs and red giants.Find out what happens when a star explodes, what it takes to become an astronaut and how to hunt for aliens with your computer. Zoom past planets and rocket round galaxies. But be careful - if you take a wrong turn you might be spaghettified!Fling your brai...

In this book you'll meet a hideous creature that can live for a month without its head, a beetle that blasts its victims with toxic bottom spray, weird beings that breathe through their skin, five-eyed monsters that vomit on their prey to turn them into soup, and much, much more!Bug your friends with monstrous trivia and nightmarish facts.

Psst! This is the best book you'll ever read on pirates!Did you know that 19 September is Talk Like a Pirate Day? Avast there, me hearties!Find out why pirates should have eaten cabbage, but drank rum instead. Discover which captain stole hats, and which one burgled for bandages. Tremble at the stories of Blackbeard, who boarded enemy ships with his beard on fire and cutlass at the ready. Check the website showing well-known pirate hotspots near you!Arm yourself to ...