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Father knows less, or, Can I cook my sister? : one dad's quest to answer his son's most baffling questions

New York Times editor Wendell Jamieson's son, Dean, has always had a penchant for odd questions. "Dad," he asked, apropos of nothing, "what would hurt more--getting run over by a car, or getting stung by a jellyfish?" "Dad, why do policemen like donuts?" "What's it feel like to get stabbed?" "Does Mona Lisa wear shoes?" Dad, a newspaperman, decided to seek out answers--and got swept up in the hunt. He spoke to movie directors and ship captains and brain surgeons and stabbing victims and lottery winners and museum curators and politicians and judges and compulsive shoppers and mothers-in-law and magicians. But what began as a lark quickly grew into something larger. Blending a father-son journey with the surprising, sometimes hilarious questions and answers it spawned, this book offers a heartwarming exploration of that childlike curiosity that lives within us all.--From publisher description.

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  • "Father knows less"
  • "Father knows less"@en
  • "Tian zhen de wen ti,ren zhen de da an"
  • "天真的問題,認真的答案"
  • "Can I cook my sister?"
  • "Can I cook my sister?"@en

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  • "New York Times editor Wendell Jamieson's son, Dean, has always had a penchant for odd questions. "Dad," he asked, apropos of nothing, "what would hurt more--getting run over by a car, or getting stung by a jellyfish?" "Dad, why do policemen like donuts?" "What's it feel like to get stabbed?" "Does Mona Lisa wear shoes?" Dad, a newspaperman, decided to seek out answers--and got swept up in the hunt. He spoke to movie directors and ship captains and brain surgeons and stabbing victims and lottery winners and museum curators and politicians and judges and compulsive shoppers and mothers-in-law and magicians. But what began as a lark quickly grew into something larger. Blending a father-son journey with the surprising, sometimes hilarious questions and answers it spawned, this book offers a heartwarming exploration of that childlike curiosity that lives within us all.--From publisher description."@en
  • "New York Times editor Wendell Jamieson's son, Dean, has always had a penchant for odd questions. "Dad," he asked, apropos of nothing, "what would hurt more--getting run over by a car, or getting stung by a jellyfish?" "Dad, why do policemen like donuts?" "What's it feel like to get stabbed?" "Does Mona Lisa wear shoes?" Dad, a newspaperman, decided to seek out answers--and got swept up in the hunt. He spoke to movie directors and ship captains and brain surgeons and stabbing victims and lottery winners and museum curators and politicians and judges and compulsive shoppers and mothers-in-law and magicians. But what began as a lark quickly grew into something larger. Blending a father-son journey with the surprising, sometimes hilarious questions and answers it spawned, this book offers a heartwarming exploration of that childlike curiosity that lives within us all.--From publisher description."
  • "The author presents some personal essays on parenting and a collection of queries from seven-year-olds with the answers he collected from the authorities on varying topics such as "Why do doctors have messy writing?" and "Is a rainbow hot or cold?""

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  • "Wo ke yi ba mei mei zhu lai chi ma? : tian zhen de wen ti,ren zhen de da an"
  • "Father knows less, or, Can I cook my sister? : one dad's quest to answer his son's most baffling questions"
  • "Father knows less, or, Can I cook my sister? : one dad's quest to answer his son's most baffling questions"@en
  • "Father knows less, or, "Can I cook my sister?" : one dad's quest to answer his son's most baffling questions"
  • "我可以把妹妹煮來吃嗎"
  • "Father knows less, or, Can I cook my sister? one dad's quest to answer his son's most baffling questions"@en
  • "我可以把妹妹煮來吃嗎? : 天真的問題,認真的答案"
  • "Wo ke yi ba mei mei zhu lai chi ma"

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