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  • Published: 3 August 2009
  • ISBN: 9781862301849
  • Imprint: Red Fox
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $17.99

Why Eating Bogeys is Good for You




More fabulous facts revealed from the master of trivia and double Blue Peter Award winner, Mitch Symons!

EVER WONDERED . . .

Why we have tonsils?

Is there any cream in cream crackers?

Why is the sea blue?

And if kangaroos keep their babies in their pouches, what happens to all the poo?!

Mitch Symons answers all these crazy questions and plenty more in this wonderfully funny and addictive book for children from 8 to 80!

And yes, eating bogeys is good for you . . . but only your own!

  • Published: 3 August 2009
  • ISBN: 9781862301849
  • Imprint: Red Fox
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $17.99

About the author

Mitchell Symons

Mitchell Symons was born in London and educated at Mill Hill School and the LSE, where he studied Law. 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 column for the Sunday Express. Mitchell has won the Blue Peter Best Book with Facts Awards twice, for WHY EATING BOGEYS IS GOOD FOR YOU and DO IGLOOS HAVE LOOS?

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Praise for Why Eating Bogeys is Good for You

Answers some really tricky questions.

Sunday Express

This absorbing anthology of unlikely information is a real treat . . . The answers are explained expertly and entertainingly and leave your brain stuffed with absurd trivia

Junior Education Plus

Wonderful present idea for reluctant readers. Curiosity will overcome all resistance

Glasgow Herald