Ripley's Believe It or Not! Seeing Is Believing! - Hardcover

9781893951457: Ripley's Believe It or Not! Seeing Is Believing!
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The 6th title in the best selling Ripley’s Believe It or Not! annual series is a compendium of incredible bizarre facts, stories, interviews and features all presented in a stunning bright new design.

This year’s book  features icons that guide readers to astounding video clips on our new fully-integrated website, where they can see some of our subjects in action.
Be amazed at the dentist with no arms, the snake that swallowed a wallaby, an underwater sculptor and a four-eared cat!  For the legions of dedicated Ripley’s fans, and anyone else on the planet who loves unbelievable facts and jaw-dropping images, the latest annual in this successful series is a feast of delights.  Also, a dramatic eight-page gatefold section presents some extraordinary performers of the past, and additional black and white Ripley archive photographs feature throughout the book.

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Ripley's Believe It or Not! is globally renowned as the authority on the weird, the eccentric, and the amazing. Ripley's Believe It or Not! provides entertaining books for children of all ages which educates and informs them in a humorous style. The Ripley brand is known around the world as a trend-setting source of family-friendly fun and excitement! Every day the researchers at Ripley's are busy digging up the craziest true stories and the most unbelievable facts.
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So, let's say somebody came up to you on the first day of school and started telling you about a guy with thousands of pins in his face and it didn't kill him, and a ginormous snake that swallowed a wallaby (a kangaroo-like animal) whole! And then your friend went on to say that some woman made a bracelet that was long enough for your entire class to wear at the same time. Pretty amazing, right? And you don't believe a word of it, do you? You should, because you'll read about (and see) those things and more in "Ripley's Believe It or Not! Seeing is Believing!" Without a doubt, your great-grandparents probably remember reading "Ripley's Believe It or Not!" That's because it started out as a newspaper column almost 100 years ago when Robert Ripley (a real person, believe it or not) became fascinated with oddities and weird things. Everything in Ripley's column was authentic, and everything in this book is absolutely true, too. There are plenty of challenges in this book. For instance, a boy in Florida made a huge ball of rubber bands - over 700,000 in all - which weighs nearly 5 tons. Look around your house. Getting any ideas? And then there's the boy who may be the fastest texter ever - 160 characters in 45 seconds, blindfolded. You can do that! You'll find curious creatures in here, like the four-eared cat, the two-headed kitten, and the two-faced calf. Then there's the house hippo whose "parents" adopted her as an orphan. You'll find a pink turtle with a Mohawk, dogs on wheels, and yes, plenty of gruesome snake stories. Grab this book and read about the Canadian whose entire body is tattooed with bones and internal organs and the guy whose eyeball has a tattoo (eeeuwww). You'll see some very old portraits of former circus attractions and modern pictures of human oddities like the magnetic man and the guy with a double arm transplant. And if art is more your thing, check out the toilet-paper wedding dress, the lifesize dragon cake, the gumball wall (double eeeuwww), a dog made of crayons and - believe it or not - a portrait of Eminem made of M&Ms! "Ripley's Believe It or Not! Seeing is Believing" looks like a children's book. It's probably going to be found in the children's section of your bookstore or library. The cover certainly will appeal to kids, but believe this: this book is way too good for adults to skip. Page after page after page of this "Ripley's" book is packed with bite-sized nuggets of goofy stories, horrid happenings, there's-no-way themes, improbable (but real) pictures, and tons of those silly-human stories you'd normally find in the smallest corner of your newspaper. The articles are family-friendly (like the Ripley's column of old) and can be enjoyed by kids ages 7-to-great-grandpa. Be aware that reading "Ripley's Believe It or Not! Seeing is Believing" may result in gasps, I-can-do-that's, and time-loss... but you won't mind. --Terri Schlichenmeyer, The Bookworm Sez, LLC

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  • PublisherRipley Publishing
  • Publication date2009
  • ISBN 10 1893951456
  • ISBN 13 9781893951457
  • BindingHardcover
  • Number of pages256
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