Kathryn Williams Releases Weird But True

Published: Dec. 9, 2022, 3 p.m.

From the troll doll bug of Suriname to the Bog Snorkeling Championships in Wales to a technicolor village in Indonesia, Weird but True! World 2023 offers an unparalleled, adventure-filled exploration of our world’s amazing uniqueness.



Middle graders will discover Earth’s strangest animals, wackiest festivals, ancient wonders, intriguing news, and more in the newest addition to the wildly popular WEIRD BUT TRUE! book series. Weird but True! World 2023: Incredible Facts, Awesome Photos, and Weird Wonders—for This Year and Beyond! showcases strange, shocking, and spectacular sights around the globe, from kooky creatures to amazing architecture. Young readers will journey across all seven continents, dive into the ocean, and even blast off into space to discover a whole wide world of weird.



The blockbuster kid-favorite series is a big, bold annual extravaganza of the wackiest and wildest marvels on planet Earth. Weird but True! World 2023 is full of fun surprises, from the world’s first underwater post office to a glass frog with transparent skin. The yearly compendium also crowns the world’s top weirdos in three categories, naming global winners plus four runners up. Readers will discover the 2023 weirdest place to live, weirdest animal, and weirdest photo.



Weird But True! World 2023 goes continent-by-continent to explore the weirdest things the world has to offer through lively blurbs, zany maps, incredible photo spreads, stats, personality quizzes, and more. Young readers will visit an amusement park deep underground, dive into a crystal-clear crack between continents, take a trip to the world’s most remote toilet, and, of course, meet all manner of weird animals big and small along the way.