Lift-the-Flap Biggest, Fastest,Tallest...

Lift-the-Flap Usborne

by Alex Frith

A dynamic,visual collection of the biggest, tallest, fastest, strongest, highest, deepest, longest and furthest things in the world – and beyond. Simple facts are coupled with eye-popping visuals that show off the sheer scale of each superlative. Bright colours and stylish artwork throughout. Over 100 basic answers to playground wonderings about which things really are the biggest, fasest etc. Part of Usborne’s lift-the-flap information series, which includes titles on the periodic table, engineering, world atlas and more.

Genres: Science, Nonfiction

16 pages, Board book

About the author

Alex Frith has been a children's non-fiction author since 2005. Working exclusively for Usborne Publishing, he has written over 50 books covering almost any subject you can think of, from the origins of the Universe to the meaning behind world religions, from extinct animals to prototype AIs, and from Japanese legends to Norse mythology. Two of his books have been shortlisted for the Royal Society Young's People's Book Prize: See Inside Inventions (2012), and 100 Things to Know About Space (2017).

Alex grew up in a house surrounded by comics and graphic novels, and has a lifelong passion for the medium. Beyond the comics he photocopied and passed around the playground of his primary school, he wrote the 4-part series 'Digital Graffiti' with artist Gez Fry in 2003, and has had short story comics published in FutureQuake and the Asteroid Belter.