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PERIGEE Trade Paperback June 2012<br />

THE TOTALLY AWESOME<br />

BOOK OF USELESS<br />

INFORMATION<br />

Noel Botham<br />

978-0-399-15925-1 • $12.95/$13.99 Can.<br />

176 pp./5 1/2” x 7 1/2”<br />

Carton: 52<br />

Humor/Popular Reference<br />

Rights: E00<br />

First serial, audio: Perigee<br />

Other: Author c/o Perigee<br />

Publishing History: Original<br />

Previous Book (in series): The Super Book of Useless<br />

Information 978-0-399-53696-0 (10/11)<br />

EAN: 9780399159251 51295<br />

On sale June 5, 2012<br />

SUGGESTED ORDER<br />

Photo ©<br />

First, grown-ups made The Book of Useless<br />

Information a #1 New York Times bestseller.<br />

Now, it’s the kids’ turn...<br />

The latest installment in the popular, bestselling Useless Information<br />

series contains all the fun and fascinating facts no child needs to know—<br />

but would love to show off! How cool would it be for kids to amaze their<br />

friends by telling them:<br />

• What strange ingredient is used to make lipstick?<br />

• The first meal eaten on the moon?<br />

• How much an iceberg weighs?<br />

Featuring the wackiest and most amazing facts from the Useless<br />

Information series, this fully-illustrated book includes many more<br />

surprising, funny, wild, weird, and altogether true facts sure to enlighten<br />

and entertain any kid (and even adults!).<br />

MARKETING<br />

• Print features and re<strong>view</strong>s<br />

• Online re<strong>view</strong>s<br />

SALES POINTS<br />

• A new installment in the #1 New York Times bestselling Useless Information<br />

series, which has more than one million copies in print<br />

• This edition will specifically target an 8-12-year-old market not yet reached by<br />

the series<br />

• Features an appropriately appealing package with black-and-white<br />

line drawings by Travis Nichols, author of The Monster Doodle Book<br />

(Perigee, 6/11)<br />

Noel Botham is chairman of the Useless Information Society and the author of<br />

the #1 New York Times bestseller The Book of Useless Information. He lives<br />

in England.<br />

—75—

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