Today's Google is "the longest book". And here is the answer:
The longest book ever written was the Yongle Dadian, an encyclopedia of the Chinese Ming Dynasty. It had 22,937 chapters in 10,000 volumes. Over 2,000 Chinese scholars worked on it for five years before it was finished.
Other book facts I learned thanks to Google:
*Thumbs up from the Vatican. Lew Wallace’s book, Ben Hur, was the first piece of fiction ever to be blessed by a pope.
*Presidential author. Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States, wrote 40 books. He wrote his first when he was a senior in college.
*Grimm news for girls. When looking at the 200 fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm, you’ll find the following: there are 16 wicked mothers or stepmothers but only 3 wicked fathers or stepfathers.
*The longest book ever written was the Yongle Dadian, an encyclopedia of the Chinese Ming Dynasty. It had 22,937 chapters in 10,000 volumes. Over 2,000 Chinese scholars worked on it for five years before it was finished.
*Mark Twain was the first writer ever to submit a typewritten manuscript to a publisher. The name of the book--Tom Sawyer.
*The oldest known books were made of clay. Written symbols were imprinted on the surface and baked to preserve them.
*Six out of the top ten best-selling children’s books of all time were written by the same author, Laura Ingalls Wilder. Wilder wrote the Little House on the Prairie series.
