Why Not? 1,111 Answers to Everything (Ngk Why?)

A lot of intresting facts.

My daughter loves it very much. She can gain the truth of the world and knowledge.

Great book to read, specially for kids, lots of interesting facts to learn.

Brilliant informative! 5*****

A fab book with some great facts

Bought as a present & well received.

内容は、中学・高校レベルのものも多数あります。 円滑に読むには、TOEIC７００点以上は必要かと感じました。

Very colorful and excellent quality book. This seems to be for kids over 10 I wish there could be a version of this book for early readers

Some parents have the goal of instilling a blueprint of their values into their children. This undermines critical thinking because the child is expected to merely regurgitate the narrative, i.e. neither thinking nor questions are required/allowed. How does this develop critical thinking? It doesn’t, in fact it’s in direct opposition to developing this skill at all. As a staunch advocate of free thinking, I think it’s the most important skill a child can be taught because no person escapes navigating the numerous lies (that lead to suffering and failure) everyone encounters throughout their life. “Why” and “Why Not” (I purchased both) are excellent books/tools for nurturing free thinking in children because critical thinking is the prerequisite. Whenever they receive instructions that don’t make sense, i.e. “You ‘can’t’ do that” (when they mean you don’t have permission), they become equipped to question “authority” for justification of said instructions by simply asking why. Whenever they encounter somebody who is merely slamming a well thought out opinion of theirs, they can turn the whole thing around by simply asking “Why Not?” This also develops humility and confidence with all persons involved (assuming they consider fairly). In short, “Why” and “Why Not” are the two most important books in the Children’s Library I’ve created. Lots of pictures, large type and, most important, a fast-track to keeping children from being neither a push-over nor wet-noodle. A huge benefit for the price of two books. Now that’s what I call an excellent deal. BTW: I came across these books the day after my Grandson (4 years old) was asking “Why?” like no tomorrow. I give complete, well thought out and simple answers. So after a couple dozen of these why questions, I was getting tired and thought I’d give him a dose of his own medicine to quell this obsession. So I rapid fired about a dozen questions. He’s not talking/answering the questions, but I notice he’s thinking about the questions. When I stopped, he grinned from ear to ear and said “That was fun! Let play the why game some more.” Realizing my intention backfired, I thought “My God, what have I done?” When I came across the books for the first time the next day I thought “God noticed and took pity on me.” LOL

Colorful and full of answers to why.

Great book for kids. A lot of usefull information