How to Avoid a Wombat's Bum

How to Avoid a Wombat's Bum

by Mitchell Symons (Author)

Synopsis

Did you know that: the first ready-to-eat breakfast cereal was Shredded Wheat in 1893 (it beat Kellogg's Corn Flakes by just five years); Scarlett Johansson, Ashton Kutcher and Simon Cowell all have twin brothers; Everton were the first British football club to introduce a stripe down the side of their shorts; the word Dude was coined by Oscar Wilde and his friends - it is a combination of the words 'duds' and 'attitude'. Well you do now! This book is filled with fantastic facts and figures to amaze and intrigue ...once you start reading you'll be hooked for hours!

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More Information

Format: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Publisher: Doubleday Childrens
Published: 05 Oct 2006

ISBN 10: 0385610726
ISBN 13: 9780385610728
Children’s book age: 9-11 Years
Book Overview: The ultimate trivia guide for kids!

Author Bio
Mitchell Symons was born in 1957 in London and educated at Mill Hill School and the LSE, where he studied just enough law to get a Third. Since leaving BBC TV, where he was a researcher and then a director, he has worked as a writer, broadcaster and journalist. He was a principal writer of early editions of the board game Trivial Pursuit and has devised many television formats. Currently he writes an award-winning weekly column for the Sunday Express.