Father Knows Less: One Dad's Quest to Answer His Son's Most Baffling Questions

ISBN-13: 9780399534584 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 320 str.

Wendell Jamieson

Opis

Kids ask the darndest questions and the answers make for a funny and fascinating (Publishers Weekly) book.
Wendell Jamieson s son, Dean, has always had a penchant for asking odd questions. Dad, what would hurt more getting run over by a car, or getting stung by a jellyfish? Dad, why do policemen like donuts? Dad, does Mona Lisa wear shoes? Because Dad is a newspaperman and city editor for The New York Times, he decided to seek out the real answers to Dean s questions from top experts movie directors and ship captains, brain surgeons and stabbing victims, a Buddhist monk and a bra fitter, and even Yoko Ono. Their father-son journey for answers to the tough and weird questions of life is a sometimes surprising, often hilarious, and always fascinating celebration of the value and beauty of childlike curiosity.
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