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

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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Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr
Published: 05/27/2008
ISBN: 9780399534584
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.03h x 5.20w x 0.87d