cover image Weird but True Sticker Doodle Book: Outrageous Facts, Awesome Activities, Plus Cool Stickers for Tons of Wacky Fun!

Weird but True Sticker Doodle Book: Outrageous Facts, Awesome Activities, Plus Cool Stickers for Tons of Wacky Fun!

National Geographic Kids. National Geographic Kids, $12.99 paper (160p) ISBN 978-1-4263-2456-7

Amusing facts about animals, science, culture, history, and technology appear alongside related activities, invitations to doodle and color, and stickers in this lively visual tour of Earth and beyond. Each %E2%80%9Cweird but true%E2%80%9D fact appears in bold display type (%E2%80%9CThe U.S. Navy built a robot that swims and looks like a shark%E2%80%9D), accompanied by eye-catching photographs and other illustrations integrated with mazes, crossword puzzles, and Mad Libs%E2%80%93style games; for the robo-shark spread, readers are asked to draw ideas for how to defend a coral reef. The diversity of activities should make the book particularly conducive to road-trip reading and sharing with friends. Ages 8%E2%80%9312. (Sept.)