For Immediate Release
Contact:
Ginger Vaughan
(ginger@quinnbrein.com)
206-842-8922
From Creatures That Glow to Avocados to Grow:
The Newest Edition of The Old Farmer’s Almanac for Kids is now available!
Award-winning and all-new, Volume 4 is full of fun and educational articles, activities, and
amusements.
“Pop” quiz: Why does corn pop? The Old Farmer’s Almanac for Kids, Volume 4, has the facts and
folklore behind the vegetable that grows on an ear! This winner in five children and young adult
categories of the 2011 International Book Awards is now available with 192 easy-to-read pages
filled with enthralling stories, fascinating facts, engaging games, and interactive projects.
Vibrant with front-to-back full color, The Old Farmer’s Almanac for Kids shares the same informative
yet quirky and fun personality as its cherished parent publication, The Old Farmer’s Almanac. It
covers many of the topics that Almanac readers love, including weather, astronomy, nature,
animals, food, and health, as well as other stories designed simply to tickle the funny bone!
A treasure chest of fun facts, The Old Farmer’s Almanac for Kids, Volume 4, will capture the curiosity
of the young and young at heart. Don’t take our word for it! Here’s a sampling of what’s inside!
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Wrap your tongue around this: Triskaidekaphobia (TRISS-kye-DECK-uh-FO-be-uh) is the
fear of the number 13!
Halloween hunger? Try making mouthy munchies, cookie critters, egg-oogily eyes, or the
slippery worm sandwich!
Sirius-ly! The dog star, Sirius, is the brightest star in the sky—if you don’t count the Sun. It is
one star in a group of stars that form the constellation Canis Major, meaning “Greater Dog.”
Look out, below . . . for meteorites! Every second, about 10 meteoroids enter Earth’s
atmosphere.
Chocolatero? It sounds like it could be delicious, but it’s not candy. A chocolatero is a warm
wind that blows in the Gulf of Mexico and is named for the brown sand that it carries.
Creatures that glow! Some insects, fish, mollusks, fungi, and worms glow in the dark
through bioluminescence, or “living light.” You can find these organisms if you look carefully
in the air or sea or on the ground.
Be a bird brainiac. New Zealand’s national bird, the quirky kiwi, is different from most birds.
Its feathers actually look like hair, and it is the only bird that has nostrils at the end of its
beak!
This alligator grows on a tree! Avocados are called “alligator pears” because they have
rough, green skin like alligators and are shaped like pears. The avocado, often thought of as
a vegetable, is actually a berry!
HIC-cup! Most people have the hiccups at one time or another. Even unborn babies hiccup—
scientists believe that hiccupping helps them to strengthen their diaphragms. Can’t stop
hiccupping? Pull on your tongue, tap or rub the back of your neck, or gently put your fingers
in your ears—not too far, though!
Also included throughout are interactive educational projects to inspire kids of all ages to get
growing, cooking, and moving! Volume 4 projects include how to grow a cucumber in a bottle, train
a chicken, and build your own backyard disc golf course—it’s a “hole” lot of fun!
The Old Farmer’s Almanac for Kids Web site, Almanac4kids.com, is the perfect complement to the
book. With articles in the Almanac as inspiration, kids can comment online, as well as share ideas
and photos, compare projects, send e-cards to friends and family, check out daily trivia, submit
story ideas, and much more.
But wait! Why does corn pop? Corn pops when water in the kernel is heated. As heat increases
pressure in the kernel, it explodes—or pops! Find this fun fact, folklore, and more in the The Old
Farmer’s Almanac for Kids!
This highly anticipated fourth volume is available throughout the United States and Canada for
$9.95 at retail stores and in the children’s section of bookstores. Folks who can’t find it in stores can
order individual copies at Almanac.com/Shop or by calling 800-ALMANAC.
The Old Farmer’s Almanac, which has been delighting readers since 1792, is produced by Yankee
Publishing Inc. of Dublin, New Hampshire. Always “useful, but with a pleasant degree of humor,” The
Old Farmer’s Almanac is known for its advice relating to home, garden, and food, as well as for its 80
percent–accurate weather forecasts for the United States and Canada. The Old Farmer’s Almanac family
of publications also includes themed calendars for 2012, The Garden-Fresh Cookbook, and The AllSeasons Garden Guide.
Want more? Friend us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter, and visit us at Almanac.com and
Almanac4kids.com.
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EDITOR’S NOTE: To find out more about The Old Farmer’s Almanac for Kids, Volume 4, request a
review copy, or schedule an interview, please contact Ginger Vaughan via email
(ginger@quinnbrein.com) or at 206-842-8922.