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  • Published: 1 October 2009
  • ISBN: 9781849410045
  • Imprint: Red Fox
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $17.99

How Much Poo Does an Elephant Do?




A further compendium of funny, fascinating, jaw-dropping, eyebrow-raising trivia from bestselling, double Blue Peter Award winner, Mitchell Symons!

Let Mitchell Symons be your guide into the weird and wonderful world of trivia.

Camels are born without humps.

Walt Disney, creator of Mickey Mouse, was scared of mice.

Only 30% of humans can flare their nostrils

A group of twelve or more cows is called a flink

And an elephant produces an eye-wateringly pongy 20 kilos of dung a day!

  • Published: 1 October 2009
  • ISBN: 9781849410045
  • Imprint: Red Fox
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $17.99

About the author

Mitchell Symons

Mitchell Symons was born in London and educated at Mill Hill School and the LSE, where he studied Law. Since leaving BBC TV, where he was a researcher and then a director, he has worked as a writer, broadcaster and journalist. He was a principal writer of early editions of the board game Trivial Pursuit and has devised many television formats. Currently he writes an award-winning column for the Sunday Express. Mitchell has won the Blue Peter Best Book with Facts Awards twice, for WHY EATING BOGEYS IS GOOD FOR YOU and DO IGLOOS HAVE LOOS?

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Praise for How Much Poo Does an Elephant Do?

Children and adults alike will want to keep delving in for just one more fact

Scotsman

Mitch knows more totally useless things about useless subjects than anybody on Earth

Chris Tarrant