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WRITER
HELEN LEWIS
Fast Facts
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​This book is designed to encourage children to read. Even the laziest reader will enjoy dipping into this fun book. It's jam-packed with fantastic, funny, amazing facts, that are short and sweet, without long boring explanations.
It covers every subject from animals, the body, food, the universe, books, and games.
It should appeal to children of all ages, even Grandad.
First Fact Finder
​Make knowledge exciting for your child. First Fact Finder is crammed with amazing – but bite-sized – facts that are fun to read and easy to understand. Based on the National Curriculum for children in the Foundation Phase (Grades 1 to 3) it covers the following: Life Skills, Mathematics, Home Language and First Additional Language. This book explores every subject your child needs to know, and much, much more. It’s the only reference book you’ll need to buy at this stage, and is an absolute must for inquiring learners aged 5 to 95.
Fact Finder​
Fact Finder is a basic, but general, reference book integrating all areas of the national curriculum. This fun-filled collection of facts is aimed at children in the intermediate school phase (Grades 4 – 6). In addition to the basic information taught at school, each section contains loads of interesting asides, references to websites and other sources of information, and is an indispensable companion for children aged 8 to 12.
Fact Finder was selected as one of Bookchat’s Books of the Year in 2011.
Factopedia
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Factopedia is a book of lists, both South African and international, and is crammed with fascinating facts about the Universe, The Earth, Plants, Animals, The Human Body, and just about everything else under the sun.Find out why Pluto is no longer a planet, which the world’s newest and oldest countries are. And what county is the happiest in the world. Which is the best-selling book ever and who has scored the most goals at the FIFA World Cup. Sports section by Ryan Gordon.
South Africa's Top Ten Book
As its name suggests, it is a compilation of over 250 top ten lists of fascinating facts and intriguing trivia. From the highest mountain peaks to the highest salaries, from the nation’s most popular chocolates to its most popular plastics surgery, from the fastest animal on four legs to the fastest man on two wheels, these lists with amaze and amuse you.
Illustrated throughout and crammed with fantastic feats and stunning statistics, South Africa’s Top Ten Book is a riveting read for every member of the family.
A Matter of Facts

Did you know that yo-yo’s were first used as weapons? Or that women were forbidden from watching the earliest Olympic Games?
Did you know that elephants are excellent long-distance swimmers? Or that Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi gave the world’s longest ever speech, when he addressed the KwaZulu Legislative Assembly for 27 hours.
This humorous book is a collection of over 500 unusual facts, figures and trivia from around the world. It has something of interest for everyone; from fantastic feats to love and marriage; from criminals and lawyers to eccentrics and cranks.
The Book of Useless Information
Jukskei is the only sport to have originated in South Africa.
Henri Matisse’s painting; Le Bateau hung upside down at the New York Museum of Modern Art for two months without anyone noticing.
Einstein’s teacher told him that he would probably amount to nothing.author of Les Misérables, often wrote in the nude, so that he would not be distracted from his work, and be tempted to take a walk instead.
These are some of the completely true and outrageous anecdotes that make up The Book of Useless Information; it’s a veritable feast of trivial perusal.
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