What on Earth Publishing Ltd

Follow an ingenious trail of 200 facts about all things cute, cosy and sweet. You’ll meet the pygmy hippo called Moo Deng whose ears wiggle when she sleeps and encounter the world’s tiniest teddy bear. You’ll learn that elephants dance in the rain and babies hiccup inside the womb. And you’ll even jet off into space to discover a comet shaped like a rubber duck and a dwarf planet with a huge, heart-shaped ice field on its surface. Every fact in the book is linked to the next in funny and surprising ways. And there isn’t just one trail through these pages: sometimes your path branches and you can choose to jump to a totally different (but still connected) part of the book. Where will your curiosity take you?  Created by the team behind the bestselling 2026 World Book Day title Funny FACTopia! The series also includes: FACTopia!, Return to FACTopia!, Gross FACTopia!, Animal FACTopia!, History FACTopia!, Science FACTopia!, Secret FACTopia! and Epic FACTopia!

Experience the events that shaped the USA from earliest times to present day, as if it were all breaking news! Newspaper-style features bring history to life – from articles reporting events as they unfold to obituaries of key figures, recipes, inventions and more. Live through the events that shaped America, including the American Revolution, the Civil War, the Civil Rights movement and the September 11 attacks. Experience America’s fun and playful side, too, from the invention of bubble gum to the wonderous debut of Mickey Mouse. And learn about some unexpected and lesser-known sides of American history, like teen hero Sybil Ludington’s ride during the American Revolution and the Navajo Nation’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic. A running timeline and special context boxes support readers’ understanding of how episodes in America’s past have influenced its present day and its future. Developed in collaboration with The Washington Post and with QR codes linking to Post podcasts and archival resources, this book is a powerful and compelling commemoration of the 250th birthday of the USA. It is the perfect book to meet this moment in history and bring families together to see how history is unfolding as we watch.

Explore every scene of this stylish book and follow the prompts to create your own noises!  Enter the storm scene and add the ‘plip… plip… plip’ of raindrops and the ‘rumbrumbrum’ of thunder… Take a tour of the bustling kitchen and make the ‘zmmmm zmmmm’ of machines and ‘crashhhhhh’ of plates… Gaze up at the night sky and add the ‘fiiewwwwww’ of the fireworks as they whoosh into the darkness! With the turn of every page, readers will create their very own landscape of sounds. This playful book offers children a joyfully interactive reading experience, which is both absorbing and hilarious.

When Harriet Tubman was born enslaved in Maryland, USA, in 1822, nobody knew this tiny Black child would be so rooted in the natural world. Nobody knew she would find her way by the stars or move through the woods as silently as an owl or hear God speaking to her in trances. Nobody knew that she would use her oneness with the environment and spirit to escape the brutality that was slavery, rescue hundreds of others from the same fate, and embrace the joys of freedom.  Nobody knew she would become a force of nature.  With compelling poetry perfect for reading aloud and luminous collage illustrations, Caroline Brewer brings readers of all ages the story of Harriet Tubman in a way it has never been told before.

We Are All Animals offers children an awe-inspiring new way to understand the animal kingdom. This unique book reveals astonishing similarities in the anatomy – and many more characteristics - of humans and other animals, celebrating our entire furry, scaly, slimy, slippery extended family. Did you know that most animal bodies, including ours, are shaped like tubes? Or that humans share 75% of their genes with chickens? That rats are ticklish, and dolphins give each other names? Children will be delighted to discover how similar they are to bats, bees, dogs, frogs, jellyfish, giraffes, and many more. By encouraging readers to make connections between distant corners of the animal kingdom, this book celebrates the extraordinary ways in which all of Earth’s creatures are connected. Created in partnership with the Humanimal Trust, a charity advocating collaboration between physicians and veterinarians, this book is underpinned by cutting-edge medical science. The charity’s founder - Professor Noel Fitzpatrick - is an internationally renowned veterinarian, who also stars in his own TV series, The Supervet (a nickname he has earned through the groundbreaking veterinary procedures he performs). He has written a foreword to the book, and his extensive medical expertise runs throughout every page.

'Gruesomely captivating' - GuardianDid you know that sloths poo only once a week? Or that poo from crocodiles was sometimes used as make-up in ancient Rome? Or that ancient Romans sometimes purchased vials of gladiator sweat? Or that apes and monkeys sweat from their armpits just like humans do? Welcome to Gross FACTopia!, a wonderland of fantastically foul facts, all of which are verified by Encyclopaedia Britannica! Every fact in this book is linked to the next in an ingenious trail of information, where you will slither from topic to topic in surprising and stomach-churning ways. Sometimes your path branches, and you can catapult forwards or creep backwards to a totally different (but still connected) part of the book. Follow your curiosity (and your nose) through this ridiculously revolting world of facts!