A funny and fascinating new spin-off series from Mitch Symons - the revolting reference expert!
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.
Mitch knows more totally useless things about useless subjects than
anybody on Earth
*Chris Tarrant*
Boys love facts. And the more disgusting these facts are, the
better. As I have mentioned on The Book Zone in the past, some of
the most popular books in the school library are The Guiness Book
of Records and Ripley's Believe It Or Not. Every break time there
are groups of boys gathered around the various volumes of these
that we have on the shelves, and sometimes we have to step in and
encourage them to enjoy them in a slightly less rowdy manner,
especially where Ripley's is concerned. Thus, when these four books
arrived from the generous people at Random House I decided that
before going through them myself I would put them to the test in
the school library. We took the boys' favourites off the shelf for
one break time and had these ready in their place, and then sat
back to observe their reaction.
Their reaction spoke volumes. After the initial disappointment at
the absence of their glossy, large format favourites they were soon
gathered around in their groups, taking it in turns to flick
through whichever book they had in search of the grossest fact they
could find. Cue raucous laughter and non-stop giggling for the next
twenty minutes - Mitchell Symons's That's So Gross books passed the
test with flying colours!
*The Book Zone (for boys): bookzone4boys.blogspot.com*
Animals, creepy crawlies and the human body are tackled in a
Horrible Histories way, and each book is packed with the sort of
disgusting trivia that delights children under eight.
*The Telegraph*
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