Curiosity and wonder

Updated March 20, 2024
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Oliver the curious owl
Otis, Chad
Paper Book
Oliver the owl questions anything and everything in this charmingly funny story that asks who, what, when, where, and why! The only question Oliver's family ever asks is Who? Who? Who? But he wants to know more: Who lives in those faraway woods?<...
Why? : what makes us curious
Livio, Mario
Paper Book
Astrophysicist and author Mario Livio investigates perhaps the most human of all our characteristics--curiosity--as he explores our innate desire to know why. Experiments demonstrate that people are more distracted when they overhear a phone conversation--where they can know only...
The shape of ideas : an illustrated exploration of creativity
Snider, Grant
Ebook
"[Snider has] created something unique: a synthesis of comics, philosophy, and poetry: a thoughtful new way of packaging eternal ideas in cartoon boxes." --The Los Angeles Review of BooksWhat does an idea look like? And where do they come from? Grant Snider's illustrations will...
The cow who climbed a tree
Merino, Gemma
Paper Book
Winner: 2017 CCBC Choices 2017 Charlotte Zolotow Award, Highly Commended Title Tina isn't like the other cows. She believes that the sky is the limit and that everything is possible. But her sisters aren't convincedand when Tina tells them she has climbed a tree...
I never thought of it that way : how to have fearlessly curious conversations in dangerously divided times
Guzmán, Mónica, (Journalist)
Paper Book
PORCHLIGHT BOOKS JUNE 2022 NONFICTION BESTSELLER "Assigned reading for fractured families aspiring to a harmonious Thanksgiving dinner." --New York Times "Anyone who sincerely wants to bridge the gaps in understanding will...

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