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What Came First?
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What Came First?

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Discover a host of surprising facts about science, animals, people, games and much more in an incredible journey through the world's timeline.

Are pants older than socks?

Did flushing toilets come before toilet paper?

What's older - Mount Everest or sharks?

Find out the answer to these questions, and much, much more in this book! Get ready for a journey through a series of mind-boggling questions you might never have thought to ask - and learn some surprising facts along the way.

Zoom out on history to see the world in a different way and draw connections between history, science, geography and more.

Including a timeline featuring many of the incredible events explored in the book.

By the illustrator of If The World Were 100 People, winner of the Royal Society Young People's Book Prize 2022.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Country
United Kingdom
Date
28 October 2025
Pages
32
ISBN
9780008568153

Discover a host of surprising facts about science, animals, people, games and much more in an incredible journey through the world's timeline.

Are pants older than socks?

Did flushing toilets come before toilet paper?

What's older - Mount Everest or sharks?

Find out the answer to these questions, and much, much more in this book! Get ready for a journey through a series of mind-boggling questions you might never have thought to ask - and learn some surprising facts along the way.

Zoom out on history to see the world in a different way and draw connections between history, science, geography and more.

Including a timeline featuring many of the incredible events explored in the book.

By the illustrator of If The World Were 100 People, winner of the Royal Society Young People's Book Prize 2022.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Country
United Kingdom
Date
28 October 2025
Pages
32
ISBN
9780008568153