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Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Scholastic Book of World Records 2010

 The wait is over! This year's Scholastic Book of World Records 2010 is here! Look inside and you will see a Table of Contents full of interesting trivia, famous people, and historical events. Major contents headings include Pop Culture, Sports, Science, Nature, Money, Human-Made, and US. The book has a Table of Contents, Index, and Page topic headings to help students navigate the content of the book. Each year Scholastic publishes a new version for the year that you can use to compare against other years in the past.

Take a look at the category Pop Culture Records...further broken down into Television, Movies, Music, Magazines, Theater, Art. You'll be able to see who is the highest paid movie actor, most popular TV show, the show that won the most Emmy Awards,  the actor who has won the most Oscars, MTV awards, or has the highest average Box-Office Gross, and top recording artists.

Read about the world's largest diamond, largest library in the world, and the world's longest insect migration, just to name a few. More than 300 Amazing records are in this book!

Scholastic Book of World Records
by Jenifer Corr Morse
ISBN: 978-0-545-16065-0

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