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  • Published: 7 October 2025
  • ISBN: 9780241619124
  • Imprint: Ladybird
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $45.00

Everything Under the Sun: All Around the World

A curious question for every day of the year




A wonderfully global collection of 366 curious questions asked by children from around the world, based on the award-winning podcast by Molly Oldfield.

How were rollerskates invented?
How do boats float?
Do snails go upside down?
Where is the happiest place in the world?

Discover the answers to all these curious questions – and many more! – asked children from all around the globe.

Ponder about why we daydream with author and illustrator Lauren Child. Find out if people can mind read with magician Derren Brown. Learn about everything from wormholes in spacetime to how frogs jump with expert scientists.

Illustrated by talented, international artists: Folasade Adeshida, Neil Badenhorst, Belinda Chen, Sophie Escavy Lim, Marta Antelo, Fernando Martin, Juliana Eigner, Andrés Landazabal, Henry Rancourt, Francesca Tiley, Daniel Gray-Barnett, Meg Rennie

  • Published: 7 October 2025
  • ISBN: 9780241619124
  • Imprint: Ladybird
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $45.00

About the authors

Molly Oldfield

Molly Oldfield is the host of 'Everything Under the Sun', a weekly podcast answering questions from children all around the world. The podcast went straight to Number 1 on the 'kids and family' Apple podcasts chart, when it launched in November 2018 and it won Bronze for 'Best Family Podcast' at the British Podcast Awards 2019. Molly also writes the weekly Kids' Quiz in the Guardian. She is known as The Original QI Elf and spent twelve years researching and writing questions for the BBC quiz show. She is also the author of several other children's books - The Secret Museum, Wonders of the World's Museums and Natural Wonders of the World. You can find out information about how to send in questions to the podcast at: www.everythingunderthesun.co.uk

Daniel Gray-Barnett

Daniel Gray-Barnett is an illustrator and author from the Huon Valley, Tasmania. He likes to think of himself as someone who was put on this planet to tell a few stories before he turns into a grumpy old man. He’s worked with clients including Disney, Kiehl’s, Sydney Opera House and The New York Times and his first picture book, Grandma Z, won a Children’s Book Council of Australia award for Best New Illustrator. When he’s not in the studio, he can be found daydreaming in the garden with his husband, German pointers and chickens.

Fernando Martin

Fernando is a freelance illustrator from Valencia, Spain. He graduated in Media and Audiovisial Communication, but drawing is what he enjoys the most. It connects him with his childhood, when there were no big worries. He works mainly digitally and he likes using limited but colorful palettes. His illustrations are inspired from infancy memories, traveling experiences, 80's cartoons, and music... When he is not drawing he enjoys reading, watching movies or hiking.