Minnie the Minx and Dennis the Menace join forces to spell out some facts in The Beano Book of Amazing Facts (Kingfisher, £6.99, ISBN 1 85697 477 4). Loads of information is provided alongside loads of cartoons. However, when 7-year-old Lawrence Bowen had finished the book he confessed that he’d only read the comic strips, “not the facts”. But he’ll read it again, he says. When he does, he’ll have to force his way through a forest of exclamation marks: ten to a double-page spread!!!
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