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Does My Goldfish Know Who I Am?: and hundreds more Big Questions from Little People answered by experts
Gemma Elwin Harris
Faber & Faber
Oct 2013
336pp
書籍編號:
03-3152
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● 內文簡介

★熱銷17國版權《小屁孩問的偉大問題》(Big Questions from Little People)第2彈!

★英國Amazon暢銷書!

一本最貼近我們生活常識的知識書!

小孩總會問出各種千奇百怪的大哉問:

為什麼轉圈頭會暈?

為什麼屁是可燃的?

迅猛龍和獵豹誰跑得快?

為什麼大便裡的玉米粒形狀跟吃進去時一樣?

為什麼打噴嚏時會閉眼睛?

為什麼爸爸都不會中樂透?

為什麼導航裡的那位女士知道路怎麼走?

我的金魚認不認得我?(你真的認為魚的記憶只有三秒鐘?)

本書蒐羅超過三百個英國小學生的真實提問,並邀請各領域專家提供簡短易懂,一分鐘內可消化的解答。著名物理學家布萊恩考克斯(Brian Cox)探索宇宙的邊緣,生物學家暨電視製作人大衛艾登堡爵士(Sir David Attenborough)告訴我們猴子會不會變成人類,喜劇演員米蘭達哈特( Miranda Hart)則思考為什麼聽到有人放屁會覺得好笑。

本書還收錄小測驗和最受歡迎的小常識單元,配上線條生動的可愛插圖,不但是家長救星,也是製造闔家歡樂時光的理想贈禮!

 

● 作者簡介

潔瑪‧荷瑞斯(Gemma Elwin Harris),自由編輯、作家,文章見於《Time Out London》、《Time Out New York》、《The List》、《Gourmet Travellerand》等旅遊生活類雜誌。其他身分還有母親、祖母、許多好奇孩子的阿姨。

 

● 媒體報導

“Like the best of Pixar's output, it manages to be entertaining for people of all ages; so all-encompassing is its content that it is both an interesting source of facts for kids and, as Alexander Armstrong writes in his introduction, "an arsenal against future questions from the back of the car" ... Necessary reading for all ages.”──每日電訊報,四顆星

“An invaluable spur to asking questions and thinking about answers.”──衛報

“Certain to give you pause about much of what you thought you knew, or at the very least rekindle that childlike curiosity about and awe at the basic fabric of the world we live in.” ──熱門閱讀網站(Brainpickings.org)

“Harris has assembled a roster of experts - some celebrities, some not, all eminent in their fields - to provide succinct, accurate replies to the sort of head-scratchers that parents and teachers regularly find themselves presented with by children of primary school age and often struggle to answer. it works a treat.”──金融時報