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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 902.07
Format: Bargain Price
Label: Workman Publishing Company
Manufacturer: Workman Publishing Company
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 308
Publication Date: August 24, 2006
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Studio: Workman Publishing Company

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
Gross is back and viler than ever! From the author of Oh, Yuck! the perennial bestseller about science with over 610,000 copies in print, comes OH, YIKES!, an illustrated encyclopedia of history’s messiest, dumbest, grossest, wackiest, and weirdest moments.

If kids think pus and gas are fun, wait until they hear the lowdown on the real Dracula, samurai, gladiators, guillotines and vomitoriums, pirates, Vikings, witch trials, and the world’s poxiest plagues. Impeccably researched, deliciously wry, and subversively educational (check out the toilet-paper timeline), OH, YIKES! covers people, events, institutions, and really bad ideas, alphabetically from April Fool’s Day to zany Zoos. Here are the Aztecs, sacrificing 250,000 people a year for the gods—and for food. Fearsome Attila the Hun, scourge of the steppes whose spinning eyes terrified his friends and whose mastery of horses terrorized his enemies (how does someone so evil die? Nosebleed!). Saur, the 11th-century dog-king of Norway (and not too bad as kings go). Henry VIII and his marital problems, the story of the Abominable Snowman and the Loch Ness Monster, why sailors in the old days preferred eating in the dark (hint: you can’t see what’s crawling in your food), and the answer to the question, “How did knights in armor go to the bathroom?”

Topped off with hundreds of illustrations and photographs along with hands-on activities that bring the past to life, OH, YIKES! puts the juice in history in a way that makes it irresistible.

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- Not just for kids!
My eleven year old read this book out loud to me on several occasions-his favorite being what he learned about the number thirteen. Since he was born on a Friday 13th he's always been curious why it has been associated with bad luck. To his delight, thanks to this book, he learned the number 13 is actually quite lucky! But Friday, not so much. Oh well, at least he gained some great knowledge and it wasn't always so gross, just rather unusual.

I found myself glancing through this book ... Read More

Rating:

- GREAT read, especially for those that don't like history
This is an GREAT read, especially for those that don't like history. It has alot of fun information in an easy to read style. My children think it is even better than "Oh, Yuck: . . ." by the same author.

Rating:

- Another great book.....
My son has OH Yuck! and also this one OH Yikes! This is a very neat book with interesting facts. He is 10 and he loves it and is always telling me really cool facts that he reads about! Great for kids!

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- My seven year old doesn't like this book
My son likes bathroom talk as much as the next kid, but he didn't like this book. He zeroed in on the basic disrespect for everything in the past and he just didn't like it. After hearing him explain that he didn't think that George Washington's wooden teeth were what he wanted to care about, I had to agree with him that the book doesn't make history appealing. People in history end up sounding stupid for not knowing things we know now. I don't want my kids to read history with that kind of arrogance. ... Read More

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- Are you ready for this?
If you are the kind of person who has ever wondered what life was like before tiolet paper was invented, why sailors like eatiing in the dark (you might be sorry that you ever asked), and what medicical care was like in the bad old days, then this is the book for you.

This is great research presented in a phenominally entertaining manner that really knows how to grab the attention of a kid! Books like this can really tear a child away from the TV or video games. It's also a great gift for ... Read More

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