The World Almanac Book of Records

Every year, millions of readers count on "The World Almanac and Book of Facts" to deliver accurate, up-to-date and comprehensive information on thousands of topics.

Now those same factoid fanatics will be able to dig into the all-new, fully illustrated "World Almanac Book of Records: Firsts, Feats, Facts and Phenomena." This first edition of "The World Almanac Book of Records" delivers more records, in more pages, than any other record book.

It's sure to become the new authoritative source for record research and record fun.

Spanning more than 500 illustrated pages and 4,000 records, "The World Almanac Book of Records" is simply the world's most comprehensive record book, with hundreds more pages and thousands more records than the competitors.

The first edition is sure to be a collectors' item, perhaps like the first edition of "The World Almanac" from 1868. "The World Almanac Book of Records" will entertain and inform any reader who has a curiosity for the fastest, the oldest, the biggest, the first, and the most extraordinary.

Students will use this authoritative guide for school and pore over it with friends. Grown-ups will learn things they never knew, laugh at things they'd forgotten, check for records while they watch sports on TV and find plenty of new titbits for party talk.

Anyone will be happy to receive "The World Almanac Book of Records" as a gift.