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**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

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About Clive Gifford

Clive Gifford is a highly experienced journalist and author who has more than 70 books in print for both adults and children. Among his children's titles are Spies (Kingfisher), Refugees (Belitha), and The Kingfisher Soccer Encyclopedia. He has written a number of highly acclaimed titles on the subject of robotics, including How to Be a Robot (OUP) and Insid

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Clive Gifford is an award-winning author of more than 200 books for children and young adults. His titles published by Ivy Kids include The Human Body in 30 Seconds , Brain Twisters , and Eye Benders , winner of the 2014 Royal Society Young People's Book Prize.

Paul Boston studied illustration and design at Brigh

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