The Wacky & Wonderful World Through Numbers

It takes a snowflake an hour to fall to the ground. A small, fluffy cloud can hold sixteen tons of rain. A honeybee colony must visit two million flowers to make a pound of honey. More than 2000 facts like these fill this collection, covering everything from animals and weather to food, fashion, pirates and the solar system. Clever text and humorous illustrations turn number-driven trivia into something genuinely hard to put down.