Fact or Fake?: The Truth About Science

Sort the truth from the lies with the Fact or Fake series packed full of unbelievable, mind-boggling facts!

Read each statement and decide if they are right or wrong, but prepare to be surprised by the sometimes strange truths. Try these and read the book to find out if you were able to separate the facts from the fakes:

Water can boil and freeze at the same time. Atoms are 99.999999% empty space. Teleportation is impossible. Pistachio nuts can spontaneously burst into flame.

Fascinating facts, eye-catching illustration and clever design treatment make this an appealing and unputdownable high interest read for children aged 9+, and there is plenty of science learning as well.

Titles in the series:
The Truth about the Human Body
The Truth about Science
The Truth about History
The Truth about Space
The Truth about Animals
The Truth about Planet Earth
The Truth about Dinosaurs
The Truth about Sports
The Truth about Inventions
The Truth about Survival Skills

About the Author

Alex Woolf has written more than 150 books, both fiction and non-fiction, mostly for children. Many of these have sold around the world and his words have been translated into over a dozen different languages. He has written on a huge range of subjects including Romans, chocolate, asteroids, sharks, Tudors, flying reptiles, soap, bees and acne. In 2019, he won a Fiction Express award for his story, Mystery at Moon Base One .

Alex lives in North London with his family and two cats, Juno and Minerva.