WHY DO HEADLESS CHICKENS RUN? is packed full of the most laugh-out-loud facts from the worlds of history, science, natural history and just about everything else too. Unbelievable-but-true comic mayhem from the master of humorous non fiction, Michael Cox, with hilarious illustrations by Clive Goddard.

 

There are 208 pages in this book. This is an encyclopedia. An encyclopedia is a book or numbered set of books containing authoritative summary information about a variety of topics in the form of short essays, usually arranged alphabetically by headword or classified in some manner. An entry may be signed or unsigned, with or without illustration or a list of references for further reading. Headwords and text are usually revised periodically for publication in a new edition. In a multivolume encyclopedia, any indexes are usually located at the end of the last volume. Encyclopedias may be general (example: Encyclopedia Americana) or specialized, usually by subject (Encyclopedia of Bad Taste) or discipline (Encyclopedia of Social Work). This book was published 2013 by Scholastic .

Michael Cox is a writer of many non-fiction and fiction books for children including titles in the Dead Famous series, Johnny Catbiscuit and How to Drink From a Frog for A&C Black.