About this item
Can you detect a hoax from the real deal? See right through photo trickery? Spot the phony logic in a story in seconds? Put your sleuthing skills to work in this fun book! See if you can find the truth behind bizarre stories, faulty facts, iffy lists, news headlines, and more. Does the world's largest mushroom (a humongous fungus!) really cover a space the size of 1,665 football fields? Did people really once pay a "knocker-up" to bang on their window each morning as an early version of the alarm clock? Check the Fib-o-Meter to find out! Complete with incredible photos and quirky collage art, this is another Nat Geo Kids book you have to read to believe...or disbelieve!From the Trade Paperback edition.
About the Author
Emily Krieger is an award-winning writer, editor, and fact-checker specializing in children's content and science.She has investigated Bigfoot and George Washington's dentures for the National Geographic Kids Myths Busted! series, for which she received the 2014 Children's Choice Fifth/Sixth Grade Book of the Year Award. She's also pondered alien and ancient life while editing Science News for Students; amassed amazing tidbits about bugs, birds, and brains for NG Kids 5,000 Awesome Facts (About Everything!) ; and made up ridiculous short stories for three NG Kids Funny Fill-In books.Her other endeavors have included fact-checking feature articles and departments for National Geographic magazine, fact-checking competition questions for the National Geographic Bee, and editing Science News.Emily was born and raised in the South and moved to Seattle, Wash., in 2000. She has been enjoying the Pacific Northwest's delightfully kooky norms ever since.
