Books with author Ripley's Believe It or Not

Join the RBI—a group of teen agents with special gifts—on a series of action-packed adventures as they travel the world!The Florida swamplands are home to hungry gators, wild electrical storms, and a most unusual creature. Sightings of a strange lizard-like animal reach Ripley High and the RBI are sent to investigate. During their search, the RBI agents find themselves in the middle of a high-speed airboat chase, a swarm of rats, a mysterious treasure hunt, and DUL agents in disguise. But then that’s nothing unusual when you’re a member of the RBI!

Did you know that there's a roller coaster 456 feet tall? Easy to read, fun to see, and filled with amazing things, kids (even reluctant readers) will love Ripley Readers Roller Coasters!With stunning photography and fun, easy-to-read writing, this Level 3 book covers everything from the first roller coasters to G-forces. It's all true and unbelievable! Ripley Level 3 Readers are perfect for kids who are beginning to read on their own. From the editors of Ripley's Believe It or Not! comes Ripley Readers. Designed to help kids build their reading skills and confidence at any level, this program offers a variety of fun, entertaining, and unbelievable topics to interest even the most reluctant readers. With stories and information that will spark their curiosity, each book will motivate them to start and keep reading. Each title is certified by and includes the Lexile measure, ensuring that the content is appropriate for each level and allowing those just beginning to read, as well as those starting to advance to chapter books, to have just the right reading content. Level 1 Sounding It Out (Pre-K-Kindergarten)—For kids who know their alphabet and are starting to sound out words. Level 2 Reading with Help (Pre-K-Grade 1)—For kids who know sight words and are learning to sound out new words. Level 3 Independent Reading (Grades 1-3)—For kids who are beginning to read on their own. Level 4 Chapters (Grades 2-4)—For confident readers who enjoy a mixture of images and story.

Building on the Ripley's board book firsts, this fun and silly illustrated guide to opposites will delight kids and adults alike! What's more fun than learning opposites, especially when they're as delightfully drawn as these! Kids will enjoy seeing silly characters illustrating everyday opposites like day and night, as well as some sillier ones, like clean and dirty. Drawn by our own Ripley cartoonist, understanding opposites has never been more fun!

Presenting a brand new title in this award-winning series, Sharks and Other Scary Sea Creatures gives a fantastic Ripley’s Believe It or Not! twist on a favorite subject.Meet extraordinary sharks and savage sea creatures in this exciting new Ripley's book. With fun facts, awesome images, and amazing Ripley stories throughout, kids will love reading about the fearsome, freaky and utterly odd ocean-dwellers on every page.

Join the RBI—a group of teen agents with special gifts—on a series of action-packed adventures as they travel the world!The coast of Japan is being terrorized by a mysterious creature. The RBI are sent to investigate sightings of red glowing eyes that peer out of sea mists and an enormous beast that breathes fire and tramples cars. A trip to Japan reveals a bizarre inventor and stories of a slumbering sea dragon. Is their mission linked to the old legend of the “Dragon’s Triangle” and its tales of disappearing ships?

Easy to read, fun to see, and filled with amazing things, kids (even reluctant readers) will love Ripley Readers! With Trucks, kids aren't only learning to read, they're learning wheel-y great facts about trucks.Did you know there are more than 15 million semi trucks operating in the United States? With stunning photography and fun, easy-to-read writing, this Level 2 book covers everything from pickup trucks to firetrucks. It's all true and unbelievable! Ripley Level 2 Readers are perfect for kids who know their sight words and are learning to sound out new words. From the editors of Ripley's Believe It or Not! comes Ripley Readers. Designed to help kids build their reading skills and confidence at any level, this program offers a variety of fun, entertaining, and unbelievable topics to interest even the most reluctant readers. With stories and information that will spark their curiosity, each book will motivate them to start and keep reading. Each title is certified by and includes the Lexile measure, ensuring that the content is appropriate for each level and allowing those just beginning to read, as well as those starting to advance to chapter books, to have just the right reading content. Level 1 Sounding It Out (Pre-K-Kindergarten)—For kids who know their alphabet and are starting to sound out words. Level 2 Reading with Help (Pre-K-Grade 1)—For kids that know sight words and are learning to sound out new words. Level 3 Independent Reading (Grades 1-3)—For kids that are beginning to read on their own. Level 4 Chapters (Grades 2-4)—For confident readers who enjoy a mixture of images and story.

Join the RBI—a group of teen agents with special gifts—on a series of action-packed adventures as they travel the world!A plane crash ten years ago and reports of a strange wolf boy lead the RBI to the wilds of western China and to a girl who thinks that the creature might be her long-lost brother. But the mountains and surrounding jungle are full of dangers. Can the team brave hungry tigers, snarling wolves and treacherous ravines to uncover the truth? A dangerous mission for the RBI.

Join the RBI—a group of teen agents with special gifts—on a series of action-packed adventures as they travel the world!The RBI travel to the plains of East Africa to investigate strange sightings of unbelievable animals, and find local people terrified of the unnatural animal cries they hear in the night. With DUL agents hot on their trail, the RBI find themselves on one of their most scary and dangerous missions so far as the adventure leads them to the mysterious lost island.

Filled with all-true facts comparing events, inventions and people that you would never believe existed at the same time in history, this brand new Ripley's Believe It or Not! series will warp your mind! We're comparing the world's most bizarre parallel events! Did you know that the Eiffel Tower was presented at the 1889 World's Fair--the same year that Nintendo was founded? Or that the last beheading by guillotine in France occurred in 1977--the same year that Star Wars was released? It might feel like you're in a time warp, but it's all true!

Did you know that a dog’s nose is 50 times better than yours? Easy to read, fun to see, and filled with amazing things, kids (even reluctant readers) will love Ripley Readers Dogs with Jobs!With stunning photography and fun, easy-to-read writing, this Level 3 book covers everything from hunting dogs to helping dogs. It's all true and unbelievable! Ripley Level 3 Readers are perfect for kids who are beginning to read on their own. From the editors of Ripley's Believe It or Not! comes Ripley Readers. Designed to help kids build their reading skills and confidence at any level, this program offers a variety of fun, entertaining, and unbelievable topics to interest even the most reluctant readers. With stories and information that will spark their curiosity, each book will motivate them to start and keep reading. Each title is certified by and includes the Lexile measure, ensuring that the content is appropriate for each level and allowing those just beginning to read, as well as those starting to advance to chapter books, to have just the right reading content. Level 1 Sounding It Out (Pre-K-Kindergarten)—For kids who know their alphabet and are starting to sound out words. Level 2 Reading with Help (Pre-K-Grade 1)—For kids that know sight words and are learning to sound out new words. Level 3 Independent Reading (Grades 1-3)—For kids that are beginning to read on their own. Level 4 Chapters (Grades 2-4)—For confident readers who enjoy a mixture of images and story.

Following on the heels of the delightful ODDphabet and Wacky 1-2-3 board books, kids ages 0–5 can learn their colors with Lobsters Are Red (But Sometimes They’re Not!).Everyone knows that lobsters are red! But sometimes they’re other colors, too. Meet a blue lobster along with animals, foods, and places that sometimes are the colors you expect them to be, but sometimes they’re not! The Lobsters Are Red board book features original illustrations based on real “believe it or not” facts. Weird, wonderful, and all true…Believe It or Not!

The BRAND NEW Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Wacky 1-2-3 board book makes learning numbers uniquely engaging for our youngest Ripley fans. Count every hat on the two-headed cow. So many animals that make you go WOW!The Wacky 1-2-3 board book features colorful, original illustrations of animal characters based on real “believe it or not” stories and facts. Exciting scenes and simple words make learning your 1-2-3’s so much fun for everyone! Weird, wonderful, and all true… Believe It or Not! Count on fingers, count on toes, Then count the buttons on all of your clothes! With animals as silly as silly can be, That make counting as WACKY as 1-2-Ripley!