Spring 2025

Megafast

Buckle Up and Explore Some of the Fastest Machines Ever Made!

  • Interest Level: Grade 2 - Grade 4
  • Reading Level: Grade 3

This exciting book brings together over 30 of the fastest machines ever invented.

With fantastically detailed, true-to-life illustrations showcasing speedy supercars, spectacular superbikes, powerful planes, and mighty monster trucks, Megafast is packed with awesome speed machines that have broken records around the world. With incredible statistics on maximum speeds, facts about engineering, and anecdotes about the journey from factory to road, racetrack, or air, speed-lovers will find themselves entertained for hours.

  • Discover the ultimate, world record-breaking speed machines.
  • From supersonic planes to jet-powered motorcycles, uncover the fastest vehicles ever made.
  • Find out what wins the race for the most powerful engine of all time!
  • Bite-size facts and a dashboard of stats show off each machine’s special features.

With some of the world’s most famous vehicles, as well as some you may not have heard of before, Megafast is full of record-breakers, world-class technology, and daring designs. The perfect gift for kids who are fascinated by speed, this eye-catching and captivating book is one to return to again and again.

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978-1-916598-59-1
On pre-order until 01/01/2025
$12.99
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Interest Level Grade 2 - Grade 4
Reading Level Grade 3
Genre Social Studies
Category 5 Kinds of Nonfiction, 5KN: Browseable Nonfiction
Copyright 2024
Publisher Hungry Tomato Ltd.
Imprint Beetle Books
Language English
Number of Pages 80
Publication Date 2025-01-01
Text Type Informational/Explanatory
BISACS JNF057000
Dimensions 8.5 x 11
Features Index and Original artwork

Author: John Farndon

John Farndon is a Royal Literary Fellow at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, UK, and the author of a huge number of books for adults and children on science, history, technology and nature, including such international best-sellers as Do Not Open and Do You Think You’re Clever?

Illustrator: Mat Edwards

UK-based illustrator Mat Edwards has been drawing for as long as he can remember. He began his career working in art studios, becoming a freelance artist in 1992, and carved a flourishing career that continues right up to today.

Illustrator: Jeremy Pyke

After a nine-year stint in the Royal Air Force as an airframes technician, Jeremy Pyke decided to launch a new career as a freelance illustrator. He started as an airbrush artist in 1988. He lives in the UK.