100 Things to Know About Sports, 9781805075073
Hardcover
Amazing sports facts revealed: equipment, achievements, and unexpected origins.

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  • Hardcover

    128 pages

  • Release Date

    4 June 2024

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Summary

100 Sporting Facts That Will Blow Your Whistle!

How do blind athletes tell between silver and gold medals? How did a Finnish architect accidentally invent skateboarding? Why do footballers wear logos on their kit? From equipment and engineering to amazing sporting achievements, find 100 incredible facts in this book, perfect for sharing with family and friends.

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781805075073
ISBN-10:1805075071
Series:100 THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT
Author:Jerome Martin, Alice James, Tom Mumbray, Micaela Tapsell, Federico Mariani, Parko Polo, Dominique Byron, Jake Williams, Anton Hallmann
Publisher:Usborne Publishing Ltd
Imprint:Usborne Publishing Ltd
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:128
Release Date:4 June 2024
Weight:540g
Dimensions:242mm x 176mm x 16mm
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Critics Review

Perfect for any curious minds * Armadillo *Educational, fun and good value for money. * School Reading List *From equipment and engineering to amazing sporting achievements, this brilliant book is the latest in Usborne’s award-winning 100 Things to Know series – Pam Norfolk * Lancashire Evening Post *

About The Author

Jerome Martin

Jerome Martin (Author) Jerome Martin has written children’s books about science, history, Shakespeare and food. Before joining Usborne in 2014, he spent a decade studying literature at Harvard, Cambridge and the University of Iowa, and several years behaving responsibly in a copywriting office. Now, he spends his working hours researching delightful and amazing facts, his evening hours parenting two children, and the minutes in-between writing poetry.

Alice James (Author) Alice James joined Usborne after working in primary schools for a while. She absolutely loves science, and over the years has lived with chimps, spent a month in the rainforest, studied Biology at Oxford University, and grown 200 carnivorous plants (not necessarily in that order). Whilst at Usborne Alice has worked on books on all kinds of science topics, from space to energy to the periodic table.

Tom Mumbray (Author) Tom studied History at university before joining Usborne in 2018. Since then he’s worked on books about Planet Earth, technology, maths and inventions (and learned lots of amazing facts about everything from paleoburrows to fireworks along the way).

Micaela Tapsell (Author) Originally from Zimbabwe, Micaela has always enjoyed learning about different cultures and exploring the great outdoors. When she’s not rafting the rapids of the Zambezi river or camping among the African wildlife, she is writing books on all sorts of delightful subjects, from science’s greatest unknowns to the wildflowers of the world.

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