Cappy West in the United Kingdom

Some explorers read maps. Cappy West holds his upside-down. Meet Cappy West — a friendly capybara with a brass compass, a sage-green bandana, and absolutely no sense of direction. He never sets out to learn anything. The learning just keeps finding him. In Book 11 of Cappy West: The Global Explorer, Cappy travels across the United Kingdom and gets everything delightfully wrong. He waves hello to Big Ben — then finds out Big Ben isn't the tower at all. He tumbles into the world's oldest underground railway, puzzles over the ancient stones of Stonehenge, follows a Welsh river the wrong way, climbs toward the top of Ben Nevis, spots a "monster" in Loch Ness, and mistakes the Giant's Causeway for a giant's broken staircase. Along the way, young readers discover real, verified facts about all four countries of the UK: rainy London and its bright red double-decker buses; that "Big Ben" is the bell, not the tower; the Tube, the world's first underground railway; around a hundred million cups of tea a day; four-thousand-year-old Stonehenge; the River Severn, the UK's longest; Ben Nevis, its tallest mountain; the legend of Nessie; and the forty-thousand stone columns of the Giant's Causeway. Every short chapter pairs a funny blunder with a true discovery, a Fun Fact, and a gentle Cappy Tip about kindness, curiosity, and slowing down to notice the world. The book closes with a Travel Scrapbook, a fact recap, and a quiz to share. Perfect for ages 6–8 (grades 2–3), confident new readers, bedtime read-alouds, and homeschool trips around the globe. Each book stands on its own — or collect the whole around-the-world series. "I wasn't lost — I was just taking the scenic route to this fact!"