A collection of facts about unusual people, animals, plants, events, and places.

Celebrate a century of the weird, the eccentric and the amazing with 100 Years of Ripley's Believe It Or Not! From humble beginnings in 1918, Ripley has become the world's best-known brand when it comes to incredible-but-true facts. Now, the most remarkable stories from 100 years of adventures have been brought together in this colourful compendium. Its pages contain the most fascinating and surprising stories from a century of Ripley, including: - The fascinating true story of the original Mr Ripley, who built a global business from his love of unusual stories - Awe-inspiring fold-out pages that bring the Ripley story alive in three dimensions - Never-before-seen images of the oddest objects from the depths of the Ripley archive Spectacular, surprising and inspiring at turns, 100 Years of Ripley's Believe It Or Not! is a must-have for anyone intrigued by the weirder side of the last century . . .

The Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Awesome Activity Book is full of exciting games, puzzles, quizzes and more. This unique children’s activity book is loaded with unbelievable facts, amazing stories, and incredible animals. It is sure to keep kids entertained and make learning fun. Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Awesome Activity Book celebrates the extraordinary side of life. The activities inside feature amazing achievements, incredible animals, and bizarre facts straight from the Ripley’s Believe It or Not! archives. Complete these activities to learn amazing facts like what animal has a blue tongue and how many rubber bands were used to make a giant rubber band ball. Designed for children ages 6-9, this unique activity book is packed with puzzles, drawing guides, matching games and more! This book is certain to keep kids laughing and learning for hours. Be sure to check out the other great titles in the Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Activity Book series.

How much trouble could one little octopus get into exploring all by herself? Join Marina as this curious little octopus stumbles upon some treasure and just a little trouble! The newest picture book from Ripley’s features fun and engaging stories around another Ripley’s Aquarium mascot, this time Marina the Giant Pacific Octopus. Filled with expressive illustrations, silly situations, and lovable characters, kids and parents alike will be charmed by this little girl’s adventure!

One of the most successful entertainment figures of his time, Robert Ripley’s life is the stuff of a classic American fairy tale. Bucktoothed and hampered by shyness, Ripley turned his sense of being an outsider into an appreciation of the weird and wonderful. He sold his first cartoon to LIFE magazine at eighteen, but it was his wildly popular ‘Believe It or Not!’ radio shows that won him international fame, and spurred him on to search the globe’s farthest corners for bizarre facts, human curiosities and shocking phenomena. Ripley delighted in making preposterous declarations that somehow turned out to be true – such as that Charles Lindburgh was only the sixty-seventh man to fly across the Atlantic or that ‘The Star Spangled Banner’ was not the USA’s national anthem. And he demanded respect for those who were labelled ‘eccentrics’ or ‘freaks’ – whether it be E. L. Blystone, who wrote 2,871 alphabet letters on a grain of rice, or the man who could swallow his own nose. By the 1930s, Ripley possessed a wide fortune, a private yacht and a huge mansion stocked with such oddities as shrunken heads and medieval torture devices. His pioneering firsts in print, radio and television tapped into something deep in the American consciousness – a taste for the titillating and exotic, and a fascination with the fastest, biggest, wackiest and weirdest – and ensured a worldwide legacy that continues today. This compelling biography portrays a man who was dedicated to exalting the strange and unusual – but who may have been the most amazing oddity of all.

The Ripley’s Believe It or Not! cartoon is the longest running cartoon strip in the world. It has been published since 1918, when Robert Ripley himself was the cartoonist. By 1933, the Ripley's Believe It or Not! Cartoon was read daily by millions of people in 17 languages across 300 publications around the world. Selections from this rich treasure trove of unbelievable stories make up our compilation of cartoon ebooks, each guaranteed to astound, amuse and entertain.