Big Questions from Little People: And Simple Answers from Great Minds Author: Gemma Elwin Harris | Language: English | ISBN:
B007QWXS3Q | Format: PDF
Big Questions from Little People: And Simple Answers from Great Minds Description
In the spirit of Schott’s Miscellany, The Magic of Reality, and The Dangerous Book for Boys comes Big Questions from Little People—a smart, illuminating, essential, and utterly delightful handbook for perplexed parents and their curious children. Author Gemma Elwin Harris has lovingly compiled weighty questions from precocious grade school children—queries that have long dumbfounded even intelligent adults—and she’s gathered together a notable crew of scientists, specialists, philosophers, and writers to answer them. Authors Mary Roach and Phillip Pullman, evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, chef Gordon Ramsay, adventurist Bear Gryllis, and linguist Noam Chomsky are among the top experts responding to the Big Questions from Little People, (“Do animals have feelings?”, “Why can’t I tickle myself?”, “Who is God?”) with well-known comedians, columnists, and raconteurs offering hilarious alternative answers. Miles above your average general knowledge and trivia collections, this charming compendium is a book fans of the E.H. Gombrich classic, A Little History of the World, will adore.
- File Size: 928 KB
- Print Length: 341 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0062223224
- Publisher: Ecco (October 30, 2012)
- Sold by: HarperCollins Publishers
- Language: English
- ASIN: B007QWXS3Q
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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- Lending: Not Enabled
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #81,532 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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Q: How do you get smart people to say beautiful things?
A: Make them explain themselves to children.
For example:
How do you fall in love?
You don't fall in love like you fall in a hole. You fall like falling through space. It's like you jump off your own private planet to visit someone else's planet. And when you get there it all looks different: the flowers, the animals, the colours people wear. It is a big surprise falling in love because you thought you had everything just right on your own planet, and that was true, in a way, but then somebody signaled to you across space and the only way you could visit was to take a giant jump. Away you go, falling into someone else's orbit and after a while you might decide to pull your two planets together and call it home. And you can bring your dog. And you can bring friends to visit. And read your favorite stories to each other. And the falling was really the big jump that you had to make to be with someone you don't want to be without. That's it.
PS You have to be brave.
By A fellow with a keyboard
I bought this as a birthday gift for my 8 year old after reading an article about the author and the idea behind the creation of this book. It was an instant hit, she didnt put it down for a few weeks then it disappeared. I figured she was tired of it and had moved on to another book or activity. A week or so later I attended a class activity at her school (2nd Grade), I was shocked and surprised when the teacher told the class that it was their weekly reading time and were going to continue reading from my daughter's book!
Apparently the teacher had heard my daughter and another child discussing one of the many questions in there and wanted the whole class to participate, so my daughter handed her the book and it has now become a weekly section of their class, the school has also ordered a few more copies for other classes.
I must say that it is the best 16 dollars I have ever spent! I will say that some of the questions will be for older kids than 8, so the material should cover ages 6 to 12 or 14.
By Bernardo Machain
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