This and many other extraordinary inventions, legacies, discoveries and artefacts have been visited and curated by Molly Oldfield into a Secret Museum. Under the streets of Manhattan priceless books are shelved brick outbuildings in London's East End house drawers of Victorian embroidery remembering foundlings long ago dead body bags in Washington cloth space suits covered in real moon dust and in an unvisited aircraft hangar sits Auguste Piccard's extraordinary invention, the balloon gondola. It sits in the quiet dark of an archive waiting for a treasure hunter or obsessive researcher to root out its very existence. Most of a museum's collection never gets seen. Illustrated by Momoko Abe, Kelsey Buzzell, Beatrice Cerocchi, Alice Courtley, Sandra de la Prada, Grace Easton, Manuela Montoya Escobar, Richard Jones, Lisa Koesterke, Gwen Millward, Sally Mullaney, and Laurie Stansfield.Who knows what's hidden from view? Locked away in cabinets, secure storage and aircraft hangars. Whether you read a question a day, or dip into it whenever you are feeling curious, this is a book to treasure and share all year round. Learn about everything from how astronauts see in the dark to what the biggest dinosaur was with experts from the Natural History Museum.įascinating facts are accompanied by gorgeous illustrations making the perfect gift for Christmas.
Find out why you taste things differently when you have a cold with Michelin star chef, Heston Blumenthal. Ponder where ideas come from with award-winning illustrator, Rob Biddulph.
Why do hammerhead sharks have such strange-shaped heads?įind out the answers to these curious questions and much, much more! What we would do if we didn't have a prime minister? "This book is heaven on a stick" - Sophie DahlĪ collection of 366 curious questions asked by children from around the world, based on the award-winning podcast by original QI Elf, Molly Oldfield. "One of the best kids books I have ever had the pleasure of reading" - Pandora Sykes It's heart-and-soul fabulous, page after page." - Stephen Fry "The only thing better than the questions, in this delightful and informative book, is the answers." - Neil Gaiman
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