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  • Published: 11 November 2025
  • ISBN: 9780241733349
  • Imprint: Dorling Kindersley
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 72
  • RRP: $22.99

What If... Every Volcano Erupted at Once?

And Other Amazing Earth Questions



Answers to 33 crazy and laugh-out-loud questions about the Earth from science author Emma Young

What if the Earth's core was made of polystyrene? Or every tree vanished overnight? Or clouds were made from candy floss? Find out the answers to these questions and many more with science author Emma Young!

Prepare to learn all about the Earth from rocks to rivers and clouds to climate. However, this isn't another dry textbook. You'll be drawn into each topic with one of 33 amusing questions that are guaranteed to make you think about our planet in a whole new way. Author Emma Young explains the answers with humour and plenty of science facts that you'll be racing to share with your friends and family. The pages are filled with attention-grabbing photography and quirky illustration, which makes this Earth book unlike any you've read before.

Even reluctant readers will find this book irresistible to dip into to find out the answers to the wacky, bizarre, and surprising questions, making this a perfect gift for any child.

  • Published: 11 November 2025
  • ISBN: 9780241733349
  • Imprint: Dorling Kindersley
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 72
  • RRP: $22.99

About the author

Emma Young

After five years in bookselling, Emma retrained as a journalist and has been reporting since 2011 – first for community papers, then as a statewide digital journalist for WAtoday. Her work also regularly appears in sister publications The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald. The Last Bookshop was shortlisted for the inaugural Fogarty Literary Award in 2019.

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