If you’d like to have an insider’s view of how the body works, then you should go and check out Dr. Frankenstein’s Human Body Book by Richard Walker. It even has a really cool holographic cover! It’s like stepping inside Dr. Frankenstein’s laboratory and watching him create a human being! It has all these really detailed [...]

Harry Potter might enjoy reading this book because it’s mostly about the history and traditons of wizardry. You get to read about evil sorceress Circe and the famous Merlin complete with awesome illustrations. It even has stuff about the secrets of ancient sorcerers, how lucky talisman works and suggests tools for spell casting! How cool [...]

Nightvisionz Cosmodome at the Central Library

Hey guys! This week the Central Library’s Young Adult area will be transformed into a planetarium as it hosts the NightVisionz Cosmodome as part of Wellington City Libraries’ International Year of Astronomy and Matariki celebrations. Using a digital audio visual show to simulate the stars you will be able to [...]

Hey guys, check out the new Ripley’s Believe It or Not 2009 special edition. There is a man from Tennessee who was buried up to his neck in a six-foot container crammed with 10,000 wriggling worms. Would you believe he stayed in there for a whole hour eating them. Yuk. Or what about the nine [...]

I’ve found a brilliant book to prove this. Take Me Back is a rip-roaring ride through history from the stone age through to the digital age. The eye-catching artwork is a mishmash incorporating the clever use of collage, crazy comics, glorious graffiti, lustrous illustration, and fantastic photoshopping. Its history presented in a fascinating and humorous [...]

There have been some pretty outrageous inventions over the last 150 years. One example would be a ladder for spiders to climb out of the bath. How about spectacles for chickens to stop them from pecking each other’s eyes? There are also accidental inventions such as the sandwich which was made by the cook of [...]

Did you realise there is a viaduct (a bridge over a valley) in France that is 19 metres taller than the Eiffel Tower?!!!! . Check out the photos and diagrams of this super bridge in Super Structures. This is another cool book from DK Books. You can also check out the tallest twin towers in the [...]

Well apparently an elephant produces a mind blowing pongy 20 kilos of dung a day! How Much Poo Does an Elephant Do? is another book by Mitchell Symons that has lots of quirky, weird and wonderful trivia for you. I found this one fascinating: in India the term “man-eating” is only applied to tigers that have [...]

I found a really, really cool looking book while I was putting books away today. It’s called Why eating bogeys is good for you. In my last post, I talked about jokes being funny when they have a punch line that takes your brain by surprise. Another way that jokes can be funny is when [...]

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