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How to Drink from a Frog!

debbie

Don’t know your onions? Unable to suss your sausages, fathom your fruit or get your head around hazelnuts? If so, this may be the book for you.

 

This fun book is absolutely stuffed full with scrumptious stories, flavoursome facts and toothsome tales about nosh to make you go GOSH and facts about chow to make you say WOW!

 

From calories to allergies, this title is packed with interesting food facts, stories, quizzes, recipes and timelines through the ages.

 

So if you’ve got the appetite to discover:

  • WHO ate an entire aeroplane
  • HOW many shepherds in a sherperd’s pie
  • HOW to drink from a frog
  • WHY some folk just love eating mud…

Then what are you waiting for? Get How to Drink from a Frog and tuck in!

Useful warnings

wcl staff

Have you ever seen a  little monkey and thought how cute it is? Well hold that thought because if you smile at a monkey, it may see your teeth and think that you’d like to hurt him and it will respond violently by biting you! I read this really informative book about animal behaviours and warnings that we should keep an eye out for. The book is called Never Smile at a Monkey by Steve Jenkins with a call number J591.65 JEN. So if you ever get caught out in the wild this book might prove handy.

Do you know? …

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That you sometimes get called a pig if you eat too much – that’s because farmyard pigs will just keep on eating and eating until their stomachs burst and they die.

Why you burp when you have a fizzy drink? – It’s the carbon dioxide in the fizzy drink that makes this happen.  When we eat or drink we swallow air, and the air contains gases like nitrogen and oxygen. So a burp is just gas.

That a flea market doesn’t actually sell fleas – It’s the name of a street market that sells second-hand/used thingslanglang. That an electric eel isn’t really an eel, but a long fish that happens to be electric. The South American electric eel can electrocute and knock out a horse from 3 metres away. An earthworm has 10 hearts. Tarantula spiders can live up to 20 years. The lungfish, which lives in hot, dry deserts, can live without food or water for 4 years.

That our eyes stay the same size our whole lives, but noses and ears just keep on growing.

For more interesting facts check out ‘Everything You Need to Know about the World’, by Simon Eliot.