Why everything you know is WRONG!

Description

This book starts from the jaw-dropping premise that everything you know could be wrong! Part science, part discovery and part fun, this book encourages kids to really think about science and the world around them, rather than just learning facts.

Lots of received wisdom is plain wrong. Sometimes, as with the old belief that all dinosaurs were scaly, its because new knowledge has come to light (fossil finds suggest many had feathers), turning facts into myths. Other wrong facts, for example that compasses point North, are half-truths: the full truth is much more interesting!