By Crispin Boyer
A National Geographic fact book stuffed with true disgusting trivia, in full-color photographs a child can't look away from.
This is the gross-out with the full National Geographic treatment: real photographs, real science, and true nasty facts about the human body, animals, food, and history. What's living on your skin right now, the most revolting things people have eaten, the creatures that survive on the most disgusting diets, all of it laid out in short, punchy captions next to big vivid pictures. A child can open to any page, find something horrifying and true, and go tell someone. It's built for exactly that.
For a reluctant reader who'll read a page of nasty facts long before they'll read a chapter, this is ideal. The National Geographic photos do a lot of the pulling, so even a child who reads slowly gets rewarded fast, and every caption is short enough to finish and true enough to repeat. It's the top of this trail's gross-nonfiction rung, the real-photo, real-science version, and it proves that the disgusting stuff they love is just the world being, factually weird.