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  • Published: 1 May 2011
  • ISBN: 9781862307582
  • Imprint: Red Fox
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $16.99

Why You Need a Passport When You're Going to Puke




Double Blue Peter Award winner, Mitchell Symons' latest collection goes global - packed full of crazy facts from around the world!

DID YOU KNOW . . .

Square watermelons are sold in Japan?

There is a River Piddle in Dorset?

Americans use enough toilet paper daily to wrap around the world nine times?

Mitchell Symons goes global - join him on his fun fact-finding world tour!

  • Published: 1 May 2011
  • ISBN: 9781862307582
  • Imprint: Red Fox
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 272
  • RRP: $16.99

About the author

Mitchell Symons

Mitchell Symons was born in London and educated at Mill Hill School and the LSE, where he studied Law. Since leaving BBC TV, where he was a researcher and then a director, he has worked as a writer, broadcaster and journalist. He was a principal writer of early editions of the board game Trivial Pursuit and has devised many television formats. Currently he writes an award-winning column for the Sunday Express. Mitchell has won the Blue Peter Best Book with Facts Awards twice, for WHY EATING BOGEYS IS GOOD FOR YOU and DO IGLOOS HAVE LOOS?

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Praise for Why You Need a Passport When You're Going to Puke

Mitch knows more totally useless things about useless subjects that anybody on Earth

Chris Tarrant

Sure to whet appetites for geography

Daily Express