This highly popular and long-running series has been revamped for a new generation of readers, with a clean, crisp redesign and colourful covers. The series explores questions that young readers ask about the world around them in an unrivalled child-friendly style. The conversational format is perfect for delivering solid information in a natural, amusing and imaginative way. Taking as its starting point a child's desire to understand the world, this illustrated book focuses on our planet, asking questions such as: why does the wind blow?, how big was the largest snowman ever built?, and why do animals sometimes fall out of the sky?
This is Book 1 in the I Wonder Why Kingfisher Series. See all I Wonder Why Kingfisher books here.
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Anita Ganeri is a well-known author of children's non-fiction books, covering a wide range of subjects from geography and religion to wildlife and ancient history. She has writtten many titles on ancient civilizations, including Ancient Egypt. Currently, she is working on the best-selling Horrible Geography series for Scholastic Publishing, the first th
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