The Mind-Blowing World of Extraordinary Competitions
Meet the Incredible People Who Will Compete at ANYTHING

Name: The Mind-Blowing World of Extraordinary Competitions
Brand: Macmillan Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Anna Goldfield
ISBN: 9781250883155

Author: Anna Goldfield, Neon Squid

Narrator: Torian Brackett

Unabridged: 1 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Macmillan Young Listeners

Published: 04/04/2023

Categories: Children's Nonfiction, Curiosities & Wonders, Sports, Extreme Sports, Olympics & Paralympics

Synopsis

This audiobook features music and special effects. Listen along and enjoy the fun that is The Mind-Blowing World of Extraordinary Competitions.

From cheese rolling races to baby crying competitions, get ready for an adventure through the most amazing contests the world has ever seen.

Throughout history humans have been challenging themselves against each other. Who could be the fastest? The strongest? The cleverest? While this was going on some other people decided to create epic contests that were…well, a little bit more unusual.

Welcome to The Mind-Blowing World of Extraordinary Competitions, introduced by podcaster and expert fact-finder Anna Goldfield! Inside this nonfiction audiobook, prepare to get your mind blown by:

• The people that take ironing boards up mountains
• A spectacular pumpkin rowing race
• Beauty pageants…for camels!

Through the stories of these awesome competitions, listeners will learn about the societies that created them, and the amazing traditions that inspired them.

Filled with fun facts, it’s a perfect audiobook for fans of Guinness World Records!

A Macmillan Audio production from Neon Squid.

About Anna Goldfield

Anna Goldfield is a podcaster, science writer, illustrator, archaeologist, and creator of all sorts of content to introduce people to the study of the world around us and its past. Anna works on the kids’ science podcast Brains On! and presents the popular archaeology podcast The Dirt.

About Hannah Riordan

Hannah Riordan is an illustration graduate from Edinburgh College of Art. She loves to experiment with color, pattern, hand lettering, and humor within her work, using a combination of traditional and digital processes.

About Neon Squid

Neon Squid creates beautiful nonfiction books for inquisitive kids (and kids at heart). We believe the most amazing stories are real ones, so our books are for children who want to decipher ancient scrolls, orbit distant stars, and dive into the deepest oceans. Our books are a labor of love—written by experts, illustrated by the best artists around, and produced using the finest materials, including sustainably sourced paper. We hope that by reading them kids are encouraged to further explore the world around them.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Hundred

Do you love competitions, I am quite sure the answer to that is yes and we enjoy them all the time. At school there are sports, music, art, writing competitions, I am sure that list goes on. I bet you have competitions with your friends, families too, why not, a lot of the time they are just for fun......more

Goodreads review by TheRetiredSchoolLibrarian

Brief summary: Young readers will learn about the exciting stories of some of the most unusual competitions of humankind from ancient times to now. Comments: I learned about competitions I never knew existed before reading this fascinating book. Ripley's Believe it Or Not and Guinness World Record fa......more

Goodreads review by Jacqui

It really was a book of mind-blowing world of extraordinary completions. Some of note. Chessboxing. Extreme Ironing. Do-Nothing Contest. Toe Wrestling. Pest Bog Snorkeling. (That’s a big nope.) Peat bog mummies. I can’t with this book. Crying Baby Festival. Worm Charming.......more