Big Bad Wolf Investigates Fairy Tales : Fact-checking your favourite stories with SCIENCE! Winner of The Week Junior's Best Children's STEM Book of the Year Award 2025

Author: Cawthorne, Catherine, Ogilvie, Sara

Reading age: from c 5 years

Published on 25 April 2024 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (Bloomsbury Childrens Books) in the United Kingdom.

Paperback / softback | 32 pages
253 x 255 x 6 | 208g

*WINNER of the Week Junior Book Award for Best Children's Book of the Year: STEM 2025**WINNER of the Peters Children's Non-Fiction Book of the Year Award 2025**WINNER of the Hampshire Information Book Award 2025**A Waterstone's Best Book of 2024*Join the Big Bad Wolf as he debunks your favourite fairy tales with SCIENCE! Written by the hilarious Catherine Cawthorne and illustrated by award-winning Sara Ogilvie.

Did a princess really feel a tiny pea through a mountain of mattresses? And could a pumpkin actually turn into a carriage to carry Cinderella to the ball? Of course not! It’s all a load of fairytale NONSENSE! Or is it . . . ? The Big Bad Wolf is on a mission to find the truth behind these tales, and clear his name in the process.

Combining STEM topics with classic stories children know and love, this hilarious non-fiction picture book is perfect for inquisitive children always asking big questions!*A BookTrust Great New Book of 2024-2025**Shortlisted for the UKLA Book Awards 2025**Shortlisted for the Queens Knickers Prize 2025*