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2) Don't know much about history: everything you need to know about American history, but never learned
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Question-and-answer format provides information about American history from exploration of the New World through the present.
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"Millions of people visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe's iconic webcomic. His stick-figure drawings about science, technology, language, and love have a large and passionate following. Fans of xkcd ask Munroe a lot of strange questions. What if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90 percent the speed of light? How fast can you hit a speed bump while driving and live? If there was a robot apocalypse, how long would humanity last? In...
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Bite-sized bits of thought-provoking philosophy are explored in this book of brainteasers. Philosopher-authors Casati and Varzi use playlets, short fiction and imagined correspondence to explore philosophical conundrums ranging from time travel to the sinister ways mirrors work. The prose tends toward the roundabout (Cause and Time are addressed--is it reasonable to build a machine to travel back into the Past, and, by traveling back into the Past,...
10) The baby tree
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After learning that his parents are expecting a baby, a young boy asks several people where babies come from and gets a different answer from each before his parents have a chance to give the right answer. Includes advice on answering questions about reproduction.
11) Green as a bean
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Questions in verse about the many things you could be if you were square or soft or loud or red or small or fat or fierce or dark.
12) Are you awake?
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Persistent young Edward has many questions for his sleepy mother, many of which are answered, "Because it's night time."
17) Do all Indians live in tipis?: questions and answers from the National Museum of the American Indian
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Answers questions about Native Americans, including those related to identity, origins and history, animals and land, language and education, love and marriage, and culture.
18) Wonder walkers
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"Two curious children go for a walk, asking imaginative questions about the natural beauty that surrounds them"--Provided by publisher.
Ready for a wonder walk? Well, then just head outside. Let your imagination soar and your curiosity run wild...and soon you'll be looking at the world in a whole new light. Micha Archer's stunningly detailed collages bring the wonders of the natural world to vivid life and demonstrate the fun to be had in exploring...
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