Alex Bellos

“We love this book series!” Match of the Day Weekly Celebrate the 2026 World Cup and enjoy hours of football-themed fun with this epic new puzzle book. Part of the bestselling Football School series, the book is packed with 100 activities and 176 pages of fun fill-in activities to keep young fans entertained for hours during the holidays, including: - Word searches - Brain teasers - Spot the difference - Conundrums - Quizzes - Riddles - True or False - Mazes - Matching games Solve the star player riddles, crack the mystery of the stolen World Cup, match the shirts to the teams and much more! “Intelligent, inspiring, funny!” Head of Education, Premier League on the Football School series

Discover a new fun football fact for every day of the year! The Football School team is back again in full colour following on from the success of The Football School Encylopedia. This bumper bundle gives the reader a fact for every day. Each month is introduced by a birthday list of key players, which is followed by seasonally appropriate facts, stats and trivia and concludes with a quiz. Packed with fun and accompanied by laugh-out-loud illustrations, this is the perfect gift for all young football fanatics.

Serien Fotballskolen forklarer verden gjennom fotball. Denne serien er pakket med fascinerende fakta.Du vil lære masse om fotball, men også fantastiske ting om historie, vitenskap og geografi!Boken er stappet med superstjerne-historier, morsomme fakta og gøyale illustrasjoner.Kan fotballen redde verden?Så klart!Gjennomillustrert med morsomme tegneserier og fylt med lattervekkende tøys, er dette den perfekte boken for enhver gutt eller jente som elsker fotball.

*70 BRAIN-TEASING FAMILY PUZZLES*'Brilliant' G.T. Karber, author of MURDLE'A lot of fun especially if shared' ***** Amazon reader review'We had great fun as a family trying to puzzle these out' ***** Amazon reader reviewEveryone else gets these seemingly simple puzzles wrong.Will you and your friends beat Alex Bellos, creator of the Guardian's Monday Puzzle, at his own game?‘I’m a sucker for Alex Bellos’s books – they’re just such fun’ Tim HarfordAlex Bellos knows better than anyone that the puzzles we find irresistible are the ones that deceive us. Those that seem blindingly, obviously simple – and yet we can’t help but get wrong.These 70 confounding puzzles – which Alex has scoured from across psychology, mathematics, statistics, physics, geography, the science of perception and more – are guaranteed to catch you and your friends off guard. But why are you getting them wrong? And how can you get them right?Alex delights in tripping us up before righting through explanations for how these puzzles work, the biases holding us back: and how to train your brain to avoid being hoodwinked again.THINK TWICE is an exhilarating family game to play for adults and kids alike. So, pit yourself against Alex's puzzles or play quiz master to friends and family - either way, you're in for a mind-boggling treat!Think once and you will stumble.Think twice and you are in with a chance.Now that you’ve been warned, can you prove Alex wrong?

A fun and essential guide to the world of football and an incredible gift for young fans.Discover everything you've EVER wanted to know about football, from fascinating facts about your favourite players and clubs, to incredible international stats and terrific trivia. Packed with hilarious illustrations, this encyclopedia is anything but boring! Learn about all aspects of the game, including the positions, rules, mascots, nicknames, trophies and tournaments and laugh loads along the way. Brought to you by the bestselling creators of the Football School series, this book is a joyful celebration of the beautiful game.“We love this book series!” Match of the Day Weekly “Intelligent, inspiring, funny!” Head of Education, Premier League on the Football School series

I denne superkule fotballboka får du lære mer om de beste fotballklubbene og -lagene. Boka er i tillegg fylt med merkelige, sprø og morsomme fakta og hendelser fra virkeligheten! Oppdag de utrolige, men sanne historiene bak de mest kjente fotballklubbene.Den perfekte boka for alle unge fotball-fans, formidlet på en fantastisk morsom og kreativ måte!

I denne superkule fotballboka får du lære mer om de beste fotballklubbene og -lagene. Boka er i tillegg fylt med merkelige, sprø og morsomme fakta og hendelser fra virkeligheten! Oppdag de utrolige, men sanne historiene bak de mest kjente fotballklubbene.Den perfekte boka for alle unge fotball-fans, formidlet på en fantastisk morsom og kreativ måte!

Fortellingen om en legende. Med legendens egne ord.Pelé ble født inn i dyp fattigdom på gata i São Paulo, og døde i 2022 som et internasjonalt ikon, og en av verdens mest bejublede fotballspillere. Hans livshistorie er like deler ekstraordinær og fortryllende.I denne oppslukende, rørende og innsiktsfulle boka forteller han den endelige historien om sin vei til toppen. Om hvordan han vant VM 3 ganger med Brasil og ble landets mestscorende gjennom tidene. Den viser at det selv fra verdens fattigste nabolag, vokser frem mennesker som oppnår global berømmelse og suksess, og som forandrer verden og idretten sin på veien.

Den perfekte boka for alle unge fotball-fans!I Fotballskolen - Utrolige helter møter du de største navnene og lagene i fotballens historie. Her kan du lese om store (og små) fotballhendelser. Oppdag utrolige historier om helter som Messi, Ronaldo, Klopp og Rapinoe, men også fortellingen om hunden som hjalp laget sitt å vinne ligaen og laget som vant mesterskapet med det aller siste sparket i kampen. En blanding med historier om de beste spillerne, krydret med virkelige sprø, herlige og morsomme hendelser. Les om Erling Braut Haalands utrolige føtter, Marcus Rashfords engasjement for fattige barn, og Ana Romeros heltemodige innsats også utenfor banen.Alex Bellos og Ben Lyttletons fotballbok inneholder mange spennende fun-facts for alle fotballinteresserte, og passer godt for barn i alderen fra 9 til 12 år.

From the bestselling author of Alex's Adventures in Numberland and Can You Solve My Problems? comes a fascinating, hugely entertaining collection of puzzles for crossword addicts and language-lovers of all stripes. 'The only puzzle book I've seen that manages to befuddle both sides of the brain at the same time.'DARA Ó BRIAIN'Such fun, full of unexpected ideas and charmingly written.'TIM HARFORDThe Language Lover's Puzzle Book is a book of more than 100 surprising and entertaining puzzles that celebrate the amazing diversity of the world of words and language.Featuring a huge variety of ancient, modern and even invented languages, this collection of problems will introduce you to unusual alphabets and scripts, curious vocabularies and phonologies, and global variations in simple behaviours like counting, telling the time, and naming children.Whether you are a crossword solver, a code-breaker or a Scrabble addict, these puzzles are guaranteed to twist your tongue and sharpen your mind.'Alex Bellos is a dazzling polymath whose cleverness and ingenuity are on full display in this utterly brilliant and original collection of linguistic puzzles. This book is destined to be a classic for puzzle lovers.'JOSHUA FOER, co-founder of Atlas Obscura and author Moonwalking with Einstein'An irresistible linguistic workout - challenging and deeply satisfying.'GASTON DORREN, author of Lingo and Babel'For all the language and puzzle fans in your life!' GRETCHEN McCULLOCH'A cornucopia of ingenious and insightful challenges.' DAVID CRYSTAL'This compendium of puzzles is a great idea.' MICHAEL ROSEN'You'll love what Alex Bellos has done here.' GYLES BRANDRETH'Tantalisting.' THE ECONOMIST'The perfect way to pass the time.' BBC SCIENCE FOCUS

Football School Terrific Teams is part of the bestselling Football School series, which teaches you about the world through football, packed with superstar stories, fun facts and laugh-out-loud illustrations. Perfect for readers 7+ and recommended by the National Literacy Trust, BookTrust, the Premier League and parents and teachers.Discover the incredible true stories behind the most famous clubs in history.Find out the stories behind the most legendary clubs in football history, such as Manchester United, Real Madrid and Liverpool. Explore how these teams have overcome failure and tragedy to win leagues and lift trophies and enter the record books. Also discover fascinating facts about more unknown clubs, including the German team with skull and crossbones logo and the most eco-friendly club in the world. Perfect for fans of Football School: Star Players and Football School: Epic Heroes, this collection of fifty true stories is a must-read for any young football fan.“We love this book series!” Match of the Day Weekly “Intelligent, inspiring, funny” Head of Education, Premier League Collect the series! Football School Season 1­–4 Star Players Epic Heroes Football School Terrific Teams 20 Fantastic Football Stories The Amazing Quiz Book The Incredible Joke Book The Ultimate Puzzle Book The Greatest Ever Quiz Book – out in 2022!

Football School Epic Heroes is part of the bestselling Football School series, which teaches you about the world through football, packed with superstar stories, fun facts and laugh-out-loud illustrations. Perfect for readers 7+ and recommended by the National Literacy Trust, BookTrust, the Premier League and parents and teachersCelebrate the greatest names and teams in football history with this collection of 50 true stories.Discover the greatest football moments of all time in this collection of 50 exciting stories, perfect for fans of Football School: Star Players. Discover the incredible stories of heroes such as Messi, Ronaldo, Klopp and Rapinoe, but also the tales of the dog that helped win the league for his team and the team who won the championship with the very final kick of the game. Bringing together the best names in the game with some truly weird, wonderful and hilarious occurrences, this book is a must-read for any young football fan.“We love this book series!” Match of the Day Weekly “Intelligent, inspiring, funny” Head of Education, Premier League Collect the series! Football School Season 1­–4 Star Players Epic Heroes Football School Terrific Teams 20 Fantastic Football Stories The Amazing Quiz Book The Incredible Joke Book The Ultimate Puzzle Book The Greatest Ever Quiz Book – out in 2022!

Football School Season 4 is part of the bestselling Football School series, which teaches you about the world through football, packed with superstar stories, fun facts and laugh-out-loud illustrations. Perfect for readers 7+ and recommended by the National Literacy Trust, BookTrust, the Premier League and parents and teachers.This book is packed with awesome true stories, real science and fascinating facts and will make you laugh loads – and it's all about football! Discover when robots play football, where the highest ever football match took place, how referees keep time in matches and what llamas and professional footballers have in common. With hilarious illustrations throughout and laugh-out-loud gags, this is the perfect book for football-mad children everywhere.“We love this book series!” Match of the Day Weekly“Intelligent, inspiring, funny” Head of Education, Premier LeagueCollect the series!Football School Season 1­–4Star PlayersEpic HeroesFootball School Terrific Teams20 Fantastic Football StoriesThe Amazing Quiz BookThe Incredible Joke BookThe Ultimate Puzzle BookThe Greatest Ever Quiz Book – out in 2022!

Thought you had it bad? In this book, you will be:Imprisoned by a sadistic logician.Challenged to raise dogs from the dead. Trapped on a burning island.And much more besides . . .Everything is at stake in this compendium of more than 150 ingenious puzzles, selected to reveal the wonderful diversity of brainteasers that have confounded and intrigued solvers for the last thousand years. You'll need to pit your wits against probability problems, wrestle with wordplay, grapple with geometry and scrabble for survival. Along the way you will discover stories of whip-smart thinkers, eccentric novelists and a poodle with allegedly supernatural powers. You will absorb fascinating and important mathematical ideas. Some solutions will rely on ingenuity, some will challenge you to spot hidden patterns, others call for extreme rationality. All will surprise, entertain and stretch your brain. Will you make it out with your puzzling pride intact?

A tenth anniversary edition of the iconic book about the wonderful world of mathsSunday Times bestseller | Shortlisted for the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize‘Original and highly entertaining' Sunday Times‘A page turner about humanity's strange, never easy and, above all, never dull relationship with numbers' New Scientist‘Will leave you hooked on numbers' Daily TelegraphIn this richly entertaining and accessible book, Alex Bellos explodes the myth that maths is best left to the geeks, and demonstrates the remarkable ways it's linked to our everyday lives.Alex explains the surprising geometry of the 50p piece, and the strategy of how best to gamble it in a casino. He shines a light on the mathematical patterns in nature, and on the peculiar predictability of random behaviour. He eats a potato crisp whose revolutionary shape was unpalatable to the ancient Greeks, and he shows the deep connections between maths, religion and philosophy.From the world's fastest mental calculators in Germany to numerologists in the US desert, from a startlingly numerate chimpanzee in Japan to venerable Hindu sages in India, these dispatches from 'Numberland' are an unlikely but exhilarating cocktail of history, reportage and mathematical proofs. The world of maths is a much friendlier and more colourful place than you might have imagined.This anniversary edition is fully revised and updated.

A coloring book that invites readers to explore symmetry and the beauty of math visually.Beautiful Symmetry is a coloring book about math, inviting us to engage with mathematical concepts visually through coloring challenges and visual puzzles. We can explore symmetry and the beauty of mathematics playfully, coloring through ideas usually reserved for advanced courses. The book is for children and adults, for math nerds and math avoiders, for educators, students, and coloring enthusiasts. Through illustration, language that is visual, and words that are jargon-free, the book introduces group theory as the mathematical foundation for discussions of symmetry, covering symmetry groups that include the cyclic groups, frieze groups, and wallpaper groups. The illustrations are drawn by algorithms, following the symmetry rules for each given group. The coloring challenges can be completed and fully realized only on the page; solutions are provided. Online, in a complementary digital edition, the illustrations come to life with animated interactions that show the symmetries that generated them.Traditional math curricula focus on arithmetic and the manipulation of numbers, and may make some learners feel that math is not for them. By offering a more visual and tactile approach, this book shows how math can be for everyone. Combining the playful and the pedagogical, Beautiful Symmetry offers both relaxing entertainment for recreational colorers and a resource for math-curious readers, students, and educators.

The Incredible Joke Book is part of the bestselling Football School series, which teaches you about the world through football, packed with superstar stories, fun facts and laugh-out-loud illustrations. Perfect for readers 7+ and recommended by the National Literacy Trust, BookTrust, the Premier League and parents and teachers.Get ready to laugh your football socks off with this side-splitting joke book.What's a striker's favourite magic routine? A hat trick!Why was the peacock sent off? It was a professional fowlWhat’s a chip-lover’s top footie show? Catch of the Day, with Gary VinegarPacked with great gags about silly stars, team titters and naughty nicknames, this is the perfect gift to give any football fan the giggles.“We love this book series!” Match of the Day Weekly “Intelligent, inspiring, funny” Head of Education, Premier League Collect the series! Football School Season 1­–4 Star Players Epic Heroes Football School Terrific Teams 20 Fantastic Football Stories The Amazing Quiz Book The Incredible Joke Book The Ultimate Puzzle Book The Greatest Ever Quiz Book – out in 2022!