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Why Do Farts Smell Like Rotten Eggs?

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Why Do Farts Smell Like Rotten Eggs?
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Mitchell Symons
SeriesMitchell Symons' Trivia Books
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:352
Dimensions(mm): Height 178,Width 126
ISBN/Barcode 9781862307490
ClassificationsDewey:032.02 032.02
Audience
Children's (6-12)

Publishing Details

Publisher Penguin Random House Children's UK
Imprint Red Fox
Publication Date 27 May 2010
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

No subject is too strange, and no trivia too tough for double Blue Peter Award winner, Mitchell Symons in his latest compendium of facts. EVER WONDERED . . . Why we burp? What a wotsit is? Whether lemmings really jump off cliffs? Why vomit always contains carrots? And why do farts smell like rotten eggs? No subject is too strange and no trivia too tough for Mitchell Symons, who has the answer to these crazy questions, and many more.

Author Biography

Mitchell Symons was born in 1957 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.

Reviews

Mitch knows more totally useless things about useless subjects than anybody on Earth * Chris Tarrant * Totally on target -- Graham Marks * Children's Bookseller *