The Knowledge, one of the many spin-offs of Horrible Histories, is a UK book series for children, written by many different writers. It provides factual information on many subjects and originates from the Scholastic publishing company. Many of them teach children what to do in order to get a kind of job in the future.
Its many writers include Terry Deary (author of the Horrible Histories), Nick Arnold (author of the Horrible Science) and Kjartan Poskitt (author of the Murderous Maths).
The series has been recently renamed to "Totally" [1].
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Note: Publication dates refer to the earliest release.
| Title | Author | Date | Subject | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Awesome Archeology | Nick Arnold | 2001 | Archeology | |
| Awful Art | Michael Cox | 1997 | Art | |
| Cracking Codes | Diana Kimpton | 2003 | Codes | |
| Crafty Crime-Busting | Rachel Wright | 2003 | Detectives and Crime solving | |
| Crashing Computers | Michael Coleman | 1999 | Computers | |
| Dead Dinosaurs | Martin Oliver | 2000 | Dinosaurs | |
| Dreadful Drama | Rachel Wright | 2000 | Drama and Theatre | |
| Fantastic Future | Dr. Mike Goldsmith | 2004 | Forecasting and Futurology | |
| Flaming Olympics | Michael Coleman | 2000 | The Olympics | Special editions released for Sydney 2000, Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008. |
| Flaming Olympics Quiz Book | Michael Coleman | 2004 | Questions on The Olympics | |
| Foul Football | Michael Coleman | 1997 | Football | Transferred to the Foul Football series. |
| The Gobsmacking Galaxy | Kjartan Poskitt | 1997 | The Milky Way and other Galaxies | |
| Groovy Movies | Martin Oliver | 1998 | Films and the Movie industry | |
| The Incredible Internet | Michael Cox | 2002 | The Internet | |
| Mind-Blowing Music | Michael Cox | 1997 | Music | |
| Mind-Boggling Buildings | Michael Cox | 1998 | Buildings | |
| More Murderous Maths | Kjartan Poskitt | 1998 | Maths | Transferred to the Murderous Maths series and retitled Guaranteed to Mash your Mind.[1] |
| Murderous Maths | Kjartan Poskitt | 1997 | Maths | Transferred to the Murderous Maths series and retitled Guaranteed to Bend your Brain.[2] |
| Mystical Magic | Ivor Baddiel and Jonny Zucker | 2003 | Magic | |
| Potty Politics | Terry Deary | 1999 | Politics | |
| Riotous Robots | Dr. Mike Goldsmith | 2003 | Robots | |
| Smashin' Fashion | Michael Cox | 1998 | Fashion | |
| Spectacular Special Effects | Diana Kimpton | 2003 | Special Effects | |
| Spoilt Royals | Alan MacDonald | 1999 | Monarchs and Royalty | |
| Triffic Chocolate | Alan MacDonald | 2000 | Chocolate | |
| Wicked World Cup | Michael Coleman | 1998 | The World Cup | Transferred to the Foul Football series. |
It appears that Scholastic is slowly reprinting all of the books in The Knowledge category under the Totally category (phasing out The Knowledge category).
Two books in The Knowledge series are Murderous Maths and More Murderous Maths . However, Kjartan Poskitt incorporated these two books and many others into their own Murderous Maths series. Due to this, these two books don't have The Knowledge logo at the top any more and are now officially part of the Murderous Maths series. To avoid further confusion, Poskitt has recently renamed the two books with more catchy, unique titles.[3] The same sort of incident has occurred with one The Knowledge book known as Foul Football, which has sparked a whole series of its own as well, called Foul Football.
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