Everything Under the Sun: All Around the World: A curious question for every day of the year

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Molly Oldfield

Everything Under the Sun

All Around the World: A curious question for every day of the year

Molly Oldfield

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Hardback

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English

Ladybird
07 October 2025

A wonderfully global collection of 366 curious questions asked by children from around the world, based on the award-winning podcast by Molly Oldfield.

How were rollerskates invented? How do boats float? Do snails go upside down? Where is the happiest place in the world?

Discover the answers to all these curious questions - and many more! - asked children from all around the globe.

Ponder about why we daydream with author and illustrator Lauren Child. Find out if people can mind read with magician Derren Brown. Learn about everything from wormholes in spacetime to how frogs jump with expert scientists.

Illustrated by talented, international artists- Folasade Adeshida, Neil Badenhorst, Belinda Chen, Sophie Escavy Lim, Marta Antelo, Fernando Martin, Juliana Eigner, Andres Landazabal, Henry Rancourt, Francesca Tiley, Daniel Gray-Barnett, Meg Rennie

By: Molly Oldfield
Imprint: Ladybird
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 286mm, Width: 232mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 500g
ISBN: 9780241619124
ISBN 10: 0241619122
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 07 October 2025
Recommended Age: From 4 to 10 years
Audience: Children/juvenile , English as a second language
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Molly Oldfield is the host of 'Everything Under the Sun', a weekly podcast answering questions from children all around the world. The podcast went straight to Number 1 on the 'kids and family' Apple podcasts chart, when it launched in November 2018 and it won Bronze for 'Best Family Podcast' at the British Podcast Awards 2019. Molly also writes the weekly Kids' Quiz in the Guardian. She is known as The Original QI Elf and spent twelve years researching and writing questions for the BBC quiz show. She is also the author of several other children's books - The Secret Museum, Wonders of the World's Museums and Natural Wonders of the World. You can find out information about how to send in questions to the podcast at- www.everythingunderthesun.co.uk