Amazing Facts: Olympics and Paralympics

Pack your brain with athletic fun and trivia ahead of the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games!

Discover over 100 extraordinary facts about the one of world’s biggest international sporting events!

Meet all your favourite Olympic and Paralympic stars and discover the pioneering athletes who paved their way in this fun-filled, stat-packed book. From impressive world records and daring athletic feats to the most hilarious moments, this book has everything you need to know - and is fully illustrated throughout.

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Caroline Rowlands began her writing career at the BBC and has more than 23 years’ experience creating exciting and engaging content for children of all ages, from preschoolers
to teens, on subjects as varied as dinosaurs, unicorns and pirates, to space, the human body, science, history and sport.

Chris Dickason grew up somewhere between the canals of south-west France, the Swiss mountains and England’s Essex estuary. His work has been described as charming and visually striking with a sharp graphic style. His irreverent sense of humour was born from years as both a mild mannered doodler and angry burger flipper, taking inspiration as much from Henri Matisse as he does The Muppets.