Weird But True Sports: 300 Wacky Facts About Awesome Athletics

by National Geographic Kids

Overview

Get ready for the Olympics! Everything has its weird side--even sports! Add wacky stats, facts, and stories to your arsenal of sports trivia with this new slam-dunk addition to the very popular Weird but True series! Discover tons more zany fun, focused totally on the subject of sports! So step up to the plate to get 300 ALL-NEW amazing facts plus photos.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781426324673
Publisher:	Disney Publishing Group
Publication date:	05/17/2016
Pages:	208
Sales rank:	7,784
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 6.50(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

Editorial Reviews

Bath tub kayaking? Wrestlers wearing monster costumes? Pigs in the Olympics? What is going on here? In this installment of National Geographic’s “Weird but True” series, kids will laugh, cringe, and wonder their way page after page of odd and bizarre facts about anything remotely resembling a sport. Although countries and cities, near and far, host a myriad of sports, some have their own sporting events not shared anywhere else. For example, ostrich races are big in South Africa, while elephants are the athletes in some basketball games in Thailand. “Down under,” outhouses (called dunnies) are raced in the streets to celebrate Australia Day. Readers will learn something new about the athletes or the sport itself, ranging from popular “big” sports such as football, baseball, basketball, soccer, and tennis to lesser-known sports that include game competitions of marbles, scrabble, Rubik’s cube or even yo-yo. Facts have been collected from the four corners of the world and even outer space! There is a stockpile of snow so large that it can be seen in space? And it does not stop there. There is more about penalties, mascots, food at different parks, or sports slang such as “chocolate chips” (a ski term for rocks seen poking through the snow). Few sports enthusiasts know that a nun once caught a “Hail Mary” pass in the stands during a football game, that hockey players once used frozen cow dung for pucks, or that an athlete once signed a partially eaten sandwich. Even the most avid sports fan will learn something new. Each colorful page, filled with weird trivia and photos, will keep readers wanting more. Reviewer: Linda Sweitzer; Ages 8 to 12.

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