How to Avoid a Wombat’s Bum Award-winning author by Mitchell Symons (author)

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Did you know THAT:

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Well you do now! Filled with fantastic facts and figures to amaze and intrigue . . . once you start reading you’ll be hooked for hours!

Product Details

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9781862301832

Publisher

Red Fox

Date published

September 29th, 2007

Other details

320 pages

Condition

New

Author/Illustrator

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.

His children’s books include How to Avoid a Wombat’s Bum and Do Igloos Have Loos? and are packed with jaw-dropping, eyebrow-raising facts and figures. They’ve also won not one but two Blue Peter badges for Best Book with Facts!