Spectacular Stories for Curious Kids Quotes

“died.”
― Jesse Sullivan, Spectacular Stories for Curious Kids: A Fascinating Collection of True Tales to Inspire & Amaze Young Readers

“painter.”
― Jesse Sullivan, Spectacular Stories for Curious Kids: A Fascinating Collection of True Tales to Inspire & Amaze Young Readers

“My stomach’s squashed under my chin… my haunches are grinding into my guts… Every gesture I make is blind and aimless… Because I’m stuck like this, my thoughts are crazy… My painting is dead… I am not a painter.”
― Jesse Sullivan, Spectacular Stories for Curious Kids: A Fascinating Collection of True Tales to Inspire & Amaze Young Readers

“Tetaumatawhakatangihangakoauaotamateaurehaeaturipukapihimaunga—horonukupokaiwhenuaakitanarahu.”
― Jesse Sullivan, Spectacular Stories for Curious Kids: A Fascinating Collection of True Tales to Inspire & Amaze Young Readers

“Canada.”
― Jesse Sullivan, Spectacular Stories for Curious Kids: A Fascinating Collection of True Tales to Inspire & Amaze Young Readers

“Lightning actually strikes the Earth about 100 times every second. Yes, you read that right. Every. Single. Second. That makes it about a 1 in 700,000 chance a person has of being struck by lightning. And with lightning bolts reaching a temperature of 50,000 degrees…I gotta tell you, I don’t like those odds.”
― Jesse Sullivan, Spectacular Stories for Curious Kids: A Fascinating Collection of True Tales to Inspire & Amaze Young Readers

“On March 30, 1867, Secretary of State William Seward agreed to buy Alaska from the Russians for $7.2 million.”
― Jesse Sullivan, Spectacular Stories for Curious Kids: A Fascinating Collection of True Tales to Inspire & Amaze Young Readers

“Flavius Josephus. His documents state that some Jewish pilgrims gathered in Jerusalem at the Jewish Temple for Passover. A soldier in the Roman Army who didn’t really like that, decided that he would moon them to show his disrespect for their faith and culture. Not only that, but he also, according to the sources, “spake such words as you might expect upon such a posture.” So you can imagine what he was telling them. The Jews tried to remain calm and not to react. That’s the best reaction on such occasions. But kids being kids, they couldn’t overlook this. A few Jewish boys started throwing rocks at the mooning soldiers. Unfortunately, the soldiers’ reaction was even worse. They called for reinforcements. This sent the pilgrims into a panic. They thought they would be attacked and killed, so a whole stampede of people running for their lives happened. This first mooning actually resulted in a horrible tragedy. In the stampede, anywhere from 10,000 to 30,000 people died. That’s pretty hard to imagine. Especially in that it all started with something that we usually find pretty funny today. I guess we should be careful about when and where we show off our butts.”
― Jesse Sullivan, Spectacular Stories for Curious Kids: A Fascinating Collection of True Tales to Inspire & Amaze Young Readers

“We had a knocker-up, and our knocker-up had a knocker-up, And our knocker-up’s knocker up didn’t knock our knocker up, So our knocker-up didn’t knock us up, ‘Cos he’s not up.”
― Jesse Sullivan, Spectacular Stories for Curious Kids: A Fascinating Collection of True Tales to Inspire & Amaze Young Readers