HCG snaps up Schreiber's non-fiction title for kids

Hachette Children’s Group has acquired world rights to a non-fiction title by author and podcaster Dan Schreiber. 

Impossible Things: Unbelievable Answers to the World’s Weirdest Questions will publish in paperback in July 2024. Emily Lunn, editorial director, and Helen Archer, commissioning editor, signed the deal from Ben Dunn at Dun Fogg.  

The synopsis says: “Did dinosaurs land on the moon 66 million years before us? Is the Loch Ness monster really a ghost? Are imaginary friends mysteriously turning into real people? Investigate the weird, the wacky and the downright crazy questions you’ve always wanted to know the answers to (and some you hadn’t even thought of!) with podcaster and fact-detective Dan Schreiber. Packed full of unbelievable-but-true facts and hilarious mono comic strips from illustrator Kristyna Baczynski.” 

Schreiber said: “I’m incredibly excited that after years of investigating all the impossible things on (and off) our planet, that Hachette are allowing me to present my findings to the kids of the world. From a hunt for the ghost of a frozen chicken to the incredible tale of the day the Earth rained glass; this book will shock and spook you as much as it will make you laugh. I can’t wait to reveal what I’ve discovered.” 

Archer said: “I can’t wait for curious kids to get their hands on Dan’s brilliantly funny, goosebump-raising and mind-boggling book. Dan is the perfect person to answers all those weird and wacky questions that children ask their parents. His quest to find the oddest conspiracy theories and the ultimate strange-but-true facts, has led to this engaging and completely brilliant book, and I know readers are going to be obsessed!” 

Schreiber is the co-host of QI’s podcast “No Such Thing As A Fish”, which has been downloaded over 470 million times. He is the co-creator of the BBC Radio 4 panel show “The Museum of Curiosity”, and he now also hosts the newly launched “We Can Be Weirdos” podcast. His adult book The Theory of Everything Else was published by Mudlark in 2022, following an 18-way auction.