The records book kids have come to know and love--with a twist. Introducing an entirely new section of wild, wacky, and amazing facts worthy of Guinness and Ripley's.

Whether kids want to know the fastest car, the coldest inhabited place on Earth, the athlete with the most Olympic records, or the world's heaviest flighted bird, they will find the answers in the new Scholastic Book of Worlds Records 2003. Kids have come to love the more than 300 incredible and sometimes unbelievable record-breaking feats that the best-selling Scholastic Book of World Records brings them every year.

Each record has its own page that includes a full-color photograph and a detailed description of the record.