Saturday 3 November 2018

Absolutely Everything! Children's History Of Everything Book Pack Christmas Giveaway

We've been sent the Absolutely Everything Bundle to review. Published by What On Earth? Books. Absolutely Everything!: A History of Earth, Dinosaurs, Rulers, Robots and Other Things Too Numerous to Mention really is a huge book full of the history of everything, starting with the Earth itself. A big thick hardback full of information, diagrams, photos and illustrations, it's the sort of beautiful and fascinating book that anyone can pick up and spend a quality hour with...


The Absolutely Everything Bundle contains the Absolutely Everything! book plus a brand new and quite different Activity Book. To promote the launch, for the next month only you can buy the Absolutely Everything Bundle for a mere £10Bargain. Excellent for any child who wants to learn more at home and ideal for home educators. 


Suitable for readers of any age around 9+ and written by Chris Lloyd, who created the brilliant Timeline Wallbooks, Absolutely Everything!: A History of Earth, Dinosaurs, Rulers, Robots and Other Things Too Numerous to Mention takes us on an epic journey from the creation of the universe 13.8 billion years ago, right through to the modern world, computing, equality, war and peace...


There are illustrations or photographs throughout and unsurprisingly timelines, which are without doubt the best way to understand chronological order, especially when you are dealing with big numbers.


The text is wide spaced and ideal for confident readers aged around 9+, but there can be a lot of text on a page, so it may be intimidating for newer or younger readers. The language is mature enough for adult readers, with explanation and interesting factual stories throughout.


Absolutely Everything! has a surprising amount of detail condensed into one book, and it never rambles aimlessly, instead asking questions of the readers and making them think about the answers. It's the best way to learn and retain information, and your child, or you, will learn a lot.


The Absolutely Everything! Activity Book is unusual too. Not quite like any activity books I've used in the past, it's full of even more short fun facts about items, creatures and events in the book, along with challenges and ideas for children.


Form Time Travellers to Meditation and Sanitation, the activities are open-ended and allow a lot of scope for children to create or do in their own style. It's an excellent tool for home education and is also just a great activity book for any restless youngster.


Absolutely Everything!: A History of Earth, Dinosaurs, Rulers, Robots and Other Things Too Numerous to Mention is written by Christopher Lloyd with illustrations by Andy Forshaw, Will Exley and Justin Poulter. Published by What On Earth Books in hardback with 336 pages, rrp £16.99. The Activity Book is 34 pages rrp £6.99. 

Available to buy now from all good bookshops, including online from What On Earth Books, where you can also find out more about their whole range and buy the bundle deal of both books for only £10 until the end of November!


What On Earth Books have also offered an Absolutely Everything Bundle pack as a Christmas Present for one of my readers. Entry to the giveaway is by Gleam form below. No entries are mandatory, but each extra task performed earns you extra entries into the random draw. Your personal information will ONLY be used to administrate this giveaway and not stored or shared.

You can find a link to help with Gleam forms and see my other Christmas Present Giveaways here.. Full terms and conditions can be found at the bottom of the Gleam form. The giveaway is open to UK entrants only and will close at midnight Sunday 2nd December for Christmas delivery.

Absolutely Everything! Children's History Of Everything Christmas Giveaway


We were sent our copy of the Absolutely Everything Home Ed Pack by What On Earth Books for review. *Amazon links are affiliate, which means I earn a few pence as a thank you for my time if you order through my link, but you don't pay any extra. Man cannot live on words alone. 

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    1. It really is a fountain of knowledge. There's so much in there :)

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  2. In ancient Egypt, servants were smeared with honey in order to attract flies away from the pharaoh.

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  3. Adolf Hitler’s nephew named William Hitler was in the U.S. Navy and fought against Hitler.

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  4. Egyptian men and women wore makeup. It was thought to have healing powers, plus it helped protect their skin from the sun.

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  5. Albert Einstein could have been president of Israel when it was formed, but he declined.

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  6. I didn't know that about Napoleon, bet there are great facts in this book

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  7. People were buried alive so often in the 19th century that inventors patented safety coffins that would give the "dead" the ability to alert those above ground if they were still alive.

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  8. Our great British bulldog Winston Churchill was actually half american

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  9. Woolly mammoths were still walking the earth when the pyramids were built in Giza

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  10. Nottingham was originally called Snotengaham. It was ruled by a Saxon chief named Snot. The name means ‘the homestead of Snot's people’.

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  11. Adolf Hitler never bombed The Midland Hotel in Manchester as it was his favourite place to visit when he was in England.

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  12. In 1912, a Paris orphanage held a raffle to raise money—the prizes were live babies.

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  13. ARchers at Agincourt had a useful range of around 200m. Early guns only had a range of around 50m.

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  14. I don't know any interesting facts would be great to win this so I can learn some!

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  15. Didn't Henry the viii explode? Because he was so big and had been dead a while when they tried to get him in the coffin he popped. But then this could be my imagination 😂

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  16. In 1926, Arctic explorer Peter Freuchen was trapped under an avalanche while on an expedition. He escaped from death by fashioning a shiv out of his own feces and amputating his foot.

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  17. Napoleon was once attacked by some rabbits

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  18. Romans used their pee as mouthwash!

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  19. The Leaning Tower of Pisa was actually never straight to begin with. The foundation began to sink when they started on the second floor.

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  20. The Romans’ had central heating

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  21. Edgar Allan Poe,s father father was an alcoholic and abandoned Edgar and other children after the death of Elizabeth and died probably after 2 days.

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  22. Buzz Aldrin mum maiden name was moon!

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  23. Bananas are curved because they grow towards the sun.

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  24. i know a few but i just cannot think this book may help me

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  25. Napoleon was once attacked by rabbits. Thanks for the giveaway! x

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  26. In Ancient Egypt servants were smeared with honey in order to attract flies away from the Pharaoh

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  27. You can see the Great Wall of China Fromm space

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  28. henry the 8th had 4 emplyees that were there to soley to wipe his butt. they were knighted though

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  29. In 585 BC, a solar eclipse occurred in the middle of a battle between the Lydians and the Medes. They promptly ceased fighting and signed a peace treaty.

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  30. In 1788 the Austrian army attacked itself and lost 10,000 men

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  31. Richard the lionheart spent less than a year of his reign in the country!

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  32. When anaesthetic was invented, the mortality rate of operations increased by 47.8% (I learnt this at the Old Operating Theatre Museum in London this week)

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  33. Mary Seacole tried to volunteer as a nurse during the Crimean War but was refused because she was black. She funded her own journey to Crimea and set up her hotel to treat the sick and wounded. She does not receive the recognition she deserves.

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  34. When Mary Queen of Scots was 6 days old her father died and she became queen.

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  35. Martin Luther King had his first experience of segregation at just six years old, when he was told he wasn’t allowed to play with his white friend anymore – his friend’s father wouldn’t allow it!

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  36. Although women couldn't vote in UK parliamentary elections until after WW1, female rate-payers could vote in local elections before 1835 and again from 1869.

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  37. Lord Byron kept a pet bear in his college dorm room.

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  38. There is the hand of Margaret Clitheroe kept in the chapel of my old secondary school weird!!

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  39. Unwrapped, the bandages of an Ancient Egyptian mummy could stretch for 1.6km.

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  40. Ice age Britons used skulls of the dead as cups.

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  41. Ken Mattingly was replaced 3 days before the Apollo 13 mission as he was exposed to German Measles but he didn't even have it!

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  42. in the Middle Ages the Thames regularly froze in the winter

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  43. Mayans used Cacao as currency - I am all for this! x

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  44. Napoleon was attacked by a horde of bunnies while hunting

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  45. An average worker bee makes only about 1/12 teaspoon of honey in its lifetime.

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  46. Queen Victoria use to close her curtains on her carriage when going through the Black Country because she was so disgusted with the filth and grime, hence the name Black Country.

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  47. Horoscopes were once linked to a serial killer

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  48. Queen Elizabeth I used a hair dye containing lead, quicklime, sulphur and water which was poisonous and very smelly!

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  49. Napoleon's horse was called Marengo

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  50. Before dentures were invented, teeth were pulled from the mouths of dead soldiers for use as prosthetics.

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  51. Woolly mammoths were still walking the earth when the pyramids were built in Giza

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  52. Did you know there was an eighth wonder of the world? The pink and white terraces in New Zealand were just that until they were buried under lava and rubble from an eruption of Mt Tarawera in 1886.

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  53. The original oranges from Southeast Asia were a tangerine-pomelo hybrid, and they were actually green. I

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  54. In ancient Egypt, servants were smeared with honey to attract flies away from the pharaoh.

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  55. Bonnie prince Charlie's troops camped in my field before invading England

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  56. Officially, the longest war in history was between the Netherlands and the Isles of Scilly, which lasted from 1651 to 1986. There were no casualties.

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  57. Napoleon was once attacked by some rabbits

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  58. One of strange Hitler facts is that he lost his one testicle during the World War I.

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  59. Roman soldiers used whacked themselves with nettles to keep warm.

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  60. A nine-year-old Daisy Ashford wrote a best selling novel in 1890.

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  61. Aztecs were the first to introduce chocolate.

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  62. Mayans used Cacao as currency <-- amazing idea right there

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  63. Sometimes the Romans would flood the whole Colosseum or Circus Maximus for a boat battle

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