By Adam Kay (author) , Henry Paker (illustrator)
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One hundred billion people have lived on earth. Unfortunately, this book would be too heavy if it talked about them all, so it’s only about ten of them.
They were all just ordinary people like you and me who were sitting around scratching their bums and wondering what time dinner was going to be ready, when one day they thought ‘Oh, I’ve got an idea’ and suddenly changed the world forever.
You might have heard of some of them.
Like Ada Lovelace, who invented computer programming two hundred years ago. (But was banned from going into libraries.)
Or Thomas Edison, who invented movie cameras and lightbulbs and how to record music. (But only went to school until he was twelve.)
And Amelia Earhart, the first woman to fly across a huge ocean, back in the days when planes were made of bits of old wood and looked like they might fall apart any second. (And worst of all, they didn’t have in-flight movies.)
Containing 4,523,825 facts (this is a guess), Kay's Brilliant Brains is written and illustrated especially for World Book Day 2023 by the record-breaking Adam Kay and Henry Paker. It’s a hilarious celebration of ten of the world’s most ingenious geniuses and all that their brilliant brains achieved.
PS Dinner’s at 6:30.
Adam Kay is a multi-award-winning writer, comedian and former doctor. His first book, an undergraduate textbook called Rapid Obstetrics and Gynaecology didn't do particularly well, but his next two did rather better.
This is Going to Hurt has sold over two million copies, been translated into 37 languages, and is the bestselling narrative nonfiction title of the decade, spending over a year at number one in the Sunday Times bestseller chart. It is soon to be a major BBC comedy-drama. His follow-up, Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas , sold over 500,000 copies in the last three months of 2019, and saw him become the first author to have simultaneous Sunday Times number ones for both hardback and paperback nonfiction titles.
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The LoveReading4Kids Editorial Team have read and reviewed Kay's Brilliant Brains - World Book Day 2023 and determined it is suitable for children aged 9-12 years old
Kay's Brilliant Brains - World Book Day 2023 features in the following genres: Featured Books for 11+ readers, Recommendations, Science, Children’s / Teenage: General interest, Children’s, Teenage and Educational, Featured Books for 9+ readers
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Kay's Brilliant Brains - World Book Day 2023 was written by Adam Kay and published by Puffin an imprint of Penguin Random House Children's UK
Kay's Brilliant Brains - World Book Day 2023 has 96 pages
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