Question Everything: How to Tell Fact from Fiction

Every day we are bombarded with information, but how do we tell fact from fiction?

News articles, social media and videos can distort the truth, exaggerate, include speculations or even be completely false. It's up to us to be critical readers and viewers to stay safe online and figure out the facts. With Question Everything, young readers will learn the skills it takes to survive in the information jungle we live in. Readers will learn terminology like source, subjective and fake news and discover practical tips to spot disinformation or sensationalized news. Readers also get a chance to practice their new critical thinking and questioning skills with activities like solving mysterious case files, trying out being an influencer and rewriting headlines to make them truthful. It's time to take back the power and think for ourselves!

Susan Marineau is an author, editor and first-class fact finder who writes creative and educational books for children. Her book Real-Life Mysteries was the winner of the Blue Peter Book Award for Best Book with Facts 2018. She has been writing information books for children for over 20 years, but began her career as a nonfiction-books editor with the BBC in London. She has lived in several different countries, including France and Malaysia, but is now based in the UK. She was a kid who always wanted to know about everything, so she researches and writes the kind of books she would have liked as a child!

Vicky Barker is b small publishing's creative director and a Blue Peter Book Award-winning illustrator for Real-life Mysteries. Vicky graduated from Liverpool John Moores University and has designed and illustrated for publishers such as Usborne, Egmont and Catnip. For b small publishing, Vicky has illustrated the STEM Starters for Kids series, Paper Toys, Infographics for Kids, FACTS, Geographics and many more. Vicky lives by the sea in West Sussex.