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1) Just because
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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When a child is too full of questions about the world to go to sleep, her patient father offers up increasingly creative responses to his child's nighttime wonderings.
2) Toaff's way
Author
Language
English
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A little squirrel with an inquisitive nature wonders why he must avoid humans and red squirrel rivals before a winter storm separates him from his family and challenges him to make his own way in a dangerous world.
4) Windows
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Language
English
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Walking his dog at dusk, one boy catches glimpses of the lives around him in this lovely ode to autumn evenings, exploring your neighborhood, and coming home.
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Questioneers volume 3
Language
English
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Inspired by real-life makers Ada Lovelace and Marie Curie, this beloved #1 bestseller champions STEM, girl power and women scientists in a rollicking celebration of curiosity, the power perseverance, and the importance of asking "Why?" Don't miss Ada's further adventures--with her friends Iggy Peck and Rosie Revere--in the instant New York Times bestseller Rosie Revere and the Raucous Riveters, the first all-new chapter book starring The Questioneers!...
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Series
Goddess girls. Main series volume 9
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Sporting a quizzical nature that renders her famous at Mount Olympus Academy, Pandora, is curious about a box in the possession of godboy Epimetheus and cannot resist opening the box when it falls in her lap.
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"Not all questions have answers. Some have more than one answer. And others have endless answers, unfolding out to the edges of the world. In this spare yet expansive narrative, acclaimed author Mac Barnett poses twenty questions both playful and profound. Some make us giggle. Others challenge our assumptions. The result is a quirky, wandering exploration of where the best questions lead-to stories. Intriguing, richly interactive, and brought to vivid...
9) Scaredy cats
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Language
English
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"Three kittens speculate on what might be in a wrapped gift before them: a harmless cake, or an array of increasingly vicious predators"--
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Series
Ginny Goblin volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Ginny tries to reach and open a box using a chair, then a grappling hook, then a catapult, while the narrator suggests ways to keep her away from it.
12) I wonder
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A child wonders about all sorts of things, including if cereal is afraid of a spoon, if tires get tired, and if shoes feel sad when they don't fit anymore.
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Series
Maybelle (Katie Speck) volume 1
Language
English
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Description
When Mr. and Mrs. Peabody invite a guest to dinner, Maybelle the cockroach, who lives under their refrigerator, ignores the warnings of Henry the flea to be sensible and ends up "splashing" into a big adventure.
14) The curious why
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
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Description
"If it’s one of those days, never fear: Your new friend the Curious Why will show you that there’s always something new to discover about the world around you! Do you want to know where the dinosaurs went? How crayons are made? Or what makes a bee sting?" --publisher's website.
15) Wondering around
Author
Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Illustrations and rhyming text show how wonder about little things in nature can lead to big discoveries.
Author
Series
Myth-o-mania volume 6
Language
English
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Description
In this modern version of Greek mythology, Hades, King of the Underworld, tells the real story of Pandora opening the box and releasing all the evils of mankind into the world.
17) Meeselphe
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Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
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"Leaning out of her treehouse window, Meeselphe wonders what it's like way down on the ground, a place she's never been--but she's certain there are many unfamiliar, delightful, and curious things to discover. So she jumps! Landing on the forest floor and striding fearlessly into the wackanana landscape of chocolate rabbits and Penrose quinces beyond, bristly-haired Meeselphe encounters friends and feckless foes. Malivicious monsters stand in her...
Author
Publisher
Page Street Kids
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Lively illustrations portray the many different instances at which a little elephant...might hear no and the big emotions that often precede and follow the word. Along the way, young readers will learn that no matter what no an elephant faces, instead of answering with flaring ears and a steaming trunk, they may use another word: why?"--
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