Stuff That Scares Your Pants Off! - The Science Museum Book of Scary Things (and ways to avoid them)

In Stuff That Scares Your Pants Off! Glenn Murphy shows us that it is OK to be scared and that there are very good reasons why we are able to feel fear. He looks closely at our most common fears, including natural disasters, predators, spiders, disease, needles, dentists, crashes, darkness, speaking in public, heights, ghosts and monsters, to show us how much of that fear is perhaps unnecessary. The result is a fun, carefully pitched, popular-science title that mixes great true-life stories with the psychology of fear, the statistical probabilities of things happening and a lot of reassurance. Discover more funny science with How Loud Can You Burp? .

About the author

Glenn Murphy wrote his first book, Why is Snot Green?, while working at the Science Museum, London. Since then he has written around twenty popular-science titles aimed at kids and teens, including the bestselling How Loud Can You Burp? and Space: The Whole Whizz-Bang Story. His books are read by brainy children, parents and teachers worldwide, and have been translated into Dutch, German, Spanish, Turkish, Finnish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Indonesian. Which is kind of awesome. In 2007 he moved to the United States and began writing full-time, which explains why he now says things like 'kind of awesome'. These days he lives in sunny, leafy North Carolina with his wife Heather, his son Sean, and two unfeasibly large felines.

Summary

A fun, fact-filled book by the author of the bestselling Why is Snot Green?, Glenn Murphy.

Product details

• Authors: Glenn Murphy
• Publisher: Macmillan Children's Books
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 7 to 9
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 03.07.2009
• EAN: 9780330477246
• ISBN: 978-0-330-47724-6
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 197 mm x 16 mm
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Non-fiction books / Non-fiction picture books > Natural science, technology; JUVENILE NONFICTION / Humor / General, JUVENILE NONFICTION / Curiosities & Wonders, JUVENILE NONFICTION / Social Topics / Emotions & Feelings, Practical interests (Children's / Teenage), General knowledge & trivia (Children's / Teenage), Humour & jokes (Children's / Teenage), Children’s / Teenage general interest: Humour and jokes