Marshmallow reviews Guinness World Records 2026

Readers of the book bunnies blog know that Caramel loves his facts. But they might have also noticed that Marshmallow also finds facts fascinating. In particular she is known to have read from cover to cover several volumes of Guinness World Records books; she has even reviewed the 2024 version for the blog. As we are slowly getting ready for 2026, she thought it would be apt to talk about the most recent edition: Guinness World Records 2026, published as always by Guinness World Records.

Marshmallow’s Quick Take: If you like reading about cool, interesting facts, then this is the book for you!

Marshmallow’s Summary: The beginning of the book has a two-page table of contents divided into different sections titled “ICON,” “Extreme Nature,” “Human Beings,” “Fantastic Feats,” “Science & Engineering,” “Society,” “Kids Zone,” “Screen Time,” “Arts & Crafts,” and “Sports.”

The theme for this year’s Guinness World Record is just the simple color yellow. The first two pages after the table of contents are bright yellow and have a bunch of world records that have to do with the color yellow. For example, apparently the most mustard eaten from a tube in 30 was 416 grams—a feat accomplished by André Ortolf (who also holds the world record for eating 1,083 grams of bottled mustard). Another yellow record is held by teacher Hideki Mori who built the lowest roadworthy car with his automobile engineering students…and the car is unsurprisingly yellow!

The rest of the book follows the layout given in the table of contents. Some other records I found interesting were about the world’s largest bath toy (a massive rubber duck that is around 40 meters long), the world’s largest moth (the atlas moth which is so large that its size-accurate picture takes up almost two pages!), and the longest marriage for a living couple (84 years and 77 days).

Marshmallow’s Review: I found this book very interesting and reading it is a constant source of entertainment and wonder. I would highly recommend it!

This book is very nice to look at. The pictures are very detailed and printed very well so there are a lot of really nice illustrations on every single page. That said, I would say that some of the pictures are a little scary because the human body and nature can do some weird things. But I would say that, because this is a very entertaining book, bunnies of all ages can enjoy it.

I think this book can be read in order, but it can also just be fun to skip around it and learn something new every now and then. Some of the ‘feats’ definitely made me wonder why anyone would try to do such a thing or why anyone would waste so much time training for it, but I suppose my judgements are subjective and reading about those feats is still interesting.

While this is a non-fiction book, it is not necessarily educational, like some of the “fact-ful” books Caramel likes to review. However, there are still some parts that can be somewhat educational. For example, I think the nature part is extremely informative, followed by the science and engineering parts.

All in all, I liked reading this book because it reminds me that there are so many weird yet fascinating things out there in the world and, with this book, I can almost see them for myself!

Marshmallow’s Rating: 100%.