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
Apr 2024 · Bloomsbury Publishing
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*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*
*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*
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About the author
Catherine Cawthorne always wanted to be an author like Jo March from Little Women, or Anne Shirley from Anne of Green Gables. But then she also wanted to be a toothpaste tester and to own a café called Hot Plate selling hot Ribena and Wispas. She spent most of her childhood either up a tree, reading, or forming secret societies in her best friend's shed. Catherine currently lives in Guildford with her husband and her three children.
Sara Ogilvie is an award-winning illustrator and printmaker, who has illustrated many bestselling and much-loved children's books, including The Detective Dog and The Hospital Dog by Julia Donaldson, and The Zebra's Great Escape by Katherine Rundell. Born and bred in Edinburgh, she now lives with her family in Newcastle upon Tyne.
Sara Ogilvie is an award-winning illustrator and printmaker, who has illustrated many bestselling and much-loved children's books, including The Detective Dog and The Hospital Dog by Julia Donaldson, and The Zebra's Great Escape by Katherine Rundell. Born and bred in Edinburgh, she now lives with her family in Newcastle upon Tyne.
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