In just one minute's time, 2,137 pounds of popcorn will be eaten, 954 camera phones will be sold, and 750,000 gallons of water will tumble over Niagara Falls! This title has tons of fun facts sure to grab kids' attention while describing all of the amazing things happening around the world in a minute! Divided into eight chapters (Earth, space, human body, food, animals, pop culture, technology, and sports), this title has a short description and funny illustration on every page.

 

There are 224 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 2007 by Scholastic US .

Steve and Matthew Murrie are a father-and-son team. Steve lives in Missouri and Matthew is currently living in New York.