The Palace of Facts

Name: The Palace of Facts
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ISBN: 9781804661703

400 Astounding Facts Await…

Kate Olesin, Andy Smith

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English

Miscellaneous
01 August 2026

Children's & Educational; General knowledge & trivia (Children's&YA); History & the past: general interest (Children's&YA); Nature, the natural world (Children's&YA); Humour & jokes (Children's&YA)

Travel through a magnificent palace where the world’s most mind-bending facts are on display!

You are hereby invited to the Palace of Facts, where 400 astonishing facts await… Search the treasure room to find out facts about crystals; explore the fossil hall to dig up facts about dinosaurs; scale the observatory to spot facts about space; delve into the dungeons to discover hidden facts. On this marvellous journey, you will be accompanied by three characters – Pip, Alice and their dog Charley – who will lead you from room to room with witty and playful charm.

Every fact is woven into Andy Smith’s lavishly illustrated scenes. Inspired by the idea of a memory palace – where facts are located in imagined physical spaces – this unique book makes information both beautiful and memorable.

By: Kate Olesin
Illustrated by: Andy Smith
Imprint: Miscellaneous
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 370mm, Width: 270mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 994g
ISBN: 9781804661703
ISBN 10: 1804661708
Pages: 96
Publication Date: 01 August 2026
Recommended Age: From 8 years
Audience: Children/juvenile , English as a second language
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Kate Olesin is a writer, editor and professional fun fact finder. A former executive editor for National Geographic Kids' Books, she’s edited or written about everything from dog communication to wacky roadside attractions, biographies of inspiring scientists to profiles of the cutest animals on Earth. Kate also co-created and hosted the award-winning kids radio program The Weird But True Show! on SiriusXM, which covers weird but totally true facts about the human body, animals, space and everything in between. When she’s not hunting for new facts, Kate enjoys gardening, playing video games, and planning road trips to national parks. She currently lives in Alexandria, Virginia, U.S.A. with her husband and rescue dog. Andy Smith is an award-winning illustrator, and studied illustration at the University of Brighton and the Royal College of Art, London. His work combines illustration and typography to create images that have humour, energy and optimism executed with a handmade, hand-printed, tactile feel. He lives by the sea in Hastings, East Sussex.