What on Earth!/Britannica Books & FACTopia! Series - Make your own trail of facts (display and activity pack)

What on Earth!/Britannica Books & FACTopia! Series - Make your own trail of facts (display and activity pack)

‘The rabbit hole to a wonderland of facts.’ Frank Cottrell-Boyce on Radio 4’s Children’s Book Club, Today programme

Welcome to FACTopia! An enthralling and hilarious journey through 400 connected facts about space, animals, engineering, numbers, machines, dinosaurs and more! Every Britannica-verified fact in the books is connected to the next in an ingenious trail of information.

Hop from topic to topic in unexpected and hilarious ways and discover extraordinary facts about all your favourite things. But there's not just one trail through these pages: sometimes your path branches to a totally different (but still connected) part of the book. Discover where your curiosity will take you! These wittily illustrated books are perfect to inspire and delight curious children aged 8+. Perfect for reluctant/striving readers.

'A wonderland of amazing, exciting and sometimes downright silly facts.' The Week Junior

The FACTopia! series includes:

  •         FACTopia!
  •         Gross FACTopia! – shortlisted for Best Laugh Out Loud Book Awards 2024: Non-fiction
  •         Return to FACTopia!
  •         Animal FACTopia!
  •         History FACTopia!
  •         Science FACTopia!
  •         Secret FACTopia!
  •         Epic FACTopia! – published in May 2025

To celebrate the publication of Gross FACTopia! on 6 February in paperback, Britannica Books, an imprint of What on Earth!, are offering 50 lucky libraries the chance to receive a physical FACTopia! series resource.

Each pack will include:

  • 1x A3 FACTopia poster
  • 1 x A3 Trail of facts poster (to promote your trail of facts)
  • 30 x A4 FACTopia ‘write your own fact’ poster (and digital access to download and print more)
  • 1 x set of instructions for your readers
  • 1 x set of instructions for you!
  • 50 x FACTopia! bookmarks

Plus digital access to print more posters if necessary and lots more FACTopia! resources including videos and a gross FACTopia! quiz.

This is one pack per public library. If you are ordering more than one pack (to disperse to other libraries in your region) you need to also email Kimberley.Sheehan@readingagency.org.uk to notify her of the individual library names that the packs will be used at. Alternatively, you can do individual orders for each library in the shop.

You can order the packs until 3 February but they may sell out before this date.

Please note, if you order a pack you are agreeing to use the materials within your library and to share photos of the group using them on social media using #AlwaysCurious and tagging @whatonearthbook (X) or @whatonearth_books (Instagram) and @readingagency. Please don’t tag Britannica Books as these accounts are no longer active. You will also send feedback of how you used the provided materials by 24 March.  Please do not order the pack if you cannot commit to this. If you do not provide feedback then this may affect your orders in the future.

The publisher will be dispatching your resources. They will receive a dispatch list with your contact name and work address (which you give) for delivery. They will only deliver the pack requested and the dispatch list will then be deleted after the 


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