The Handy Answer Book for Kids (and Parents)

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<div>Kids ask the darndest things . . . and here are the answers—all in one helpful book!

Anyone who has ever been a kid, raised a kid, or spent any time with kids knows that asking questions is a critical part of being a kid. Kids have curious minds, and they come up with some very interesting questions. Why do dogs bark? Why is the sky blue? Why do people have to grow old? Questions like these are how kids find out about the world, and these questions deserve answers. But the truth is, adults don’t always know the answers. The Handy Answer Book for Kids (and Parents) comes to the rescue!

Written with a child's imagination in mind, this easy-to-understand book is a launching pad for curious young minds and a life raft for parents at wits end. It addresses nearly 800 queries with enough depth and detail to both satisfy the curiosity of persistent young inquisitors and provide parents with a secure sense of a job well done. It'll equip every parent for those difficult, absurd, or sometimes funny questions from their kids, such as …

<li>Why do people speak different languages?

<li>Why do I cry?

<li>How can fish breathe underwater?

<li>Can people who die see and talk with living people after they are gone?

<li>Why do women in some countries wear veils?

<li>How did my life begin?

<li>How does a vacuum cleaner pick up dirt?

<li>How does my body know to wake up when morning comes?

With numerous photos and illustrations, this tome is richly illustrated, and its helpful bibliography and extensive index add to its usefulness. A launching pad for inquisitive young minds and a life raft for parents who are at their wits’ end, The Handy Answer Book for Kids (and Parents) is a book that every parent needs, and every kid will covet!</div>

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Juvenile Nonfiction

People & Places

Reference

Science & Nature

General officer

Animals

General

History

Informations

Publié par	Visible Ink Press
Date de parution	01 octobre 2009
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781578592760
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	6 Mo

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THE HANDY ANSWER for BOOK KIDS (and Parents) S E C O N D E D I T I O N ® Yo u rSm a r tRefe r e n c e

Gina Misiroglu

About the Author

G ina Misiroglubegan noting dozens of questions and answers for the second edi-tion ofThe Handy Answer Book for Children (and Parents)while fielding life’s questions from her two children, who are now 6 and 16. When she’s not busy par-enting, she spends her time writing books, specializing in the authorship and edit-ing of pop culture, biography, American history, and general interest titles. Misiroglu has developed dozens of titles for publishers as varied as Warner Bros. Worldwide Publishing, Price Stern Sloan, New World Library, Macmillan Reference USA, and Sharpe Reference. She is the editor ofAmerican Countercultures: An Encyclopedia of Nonconformists, Alternative Lifestyles, and Radical Ideas in U.S. History(2008);Girls Like Us: 40 Extraordinary Women Celebrate Girlhood in Story, Poetry, and Song(2000)—winner of the New York Public Library’s “Best Book for Teens” Award—andImagine: The Spirit of Twentieth-Century American Heroes(2001). Her books for Visible Ink Press includeThe Handy Politics Answer Book(2002),The Superhero Book: The Encyclopedia of Comic-Book Icons and Hollywood Heroes(2004), andThe Handy Presidents Answer Book(2005). She lives in Los Angeles.

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THE HANDY ANSWER BOOK for KIDS (and Parents)

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Misiroglu, Gina Renée. The handy answer book for kids (and parents) / by Gina Misiroglu. — 2nd ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-57859-219-7 1. Children's questions and answers. I. Title. AG195.G25 2009 031'.02—dc22 2009020191

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IN T R O D U C T I O Nix FO RMO R EIN F O R M AT I O N IN D E X281

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OUTER SPACE … 1 Mysteries of the Universe … Planets and the Solar System … Our Sun and the Stars … Comets, Meteors, and Asteroids … Exploring Space

PLANET EARTH AND OUR MOON … 21 The Blue Planet … The Moon … Up in the Sky … Clouds and Storms … Hot and Cold Days … Big Mountains, Deep Holes … Water, Water Everywhere … Volcanoes and Earthquakes … Going Green

CREATURES BIG AND SMALL … 49 Dinosaurs and Ancient Life … Amazing Animals … Bug Zoo … Fish and Sea Creatures … Reptiles and Amphibians … Birds

PLANT LIFE … 79 Plant Basics … Seeds and Growth … Fragrant Flowers, Beautiful Blooms …

Poisonous, Meat-eating, and Other Extreme Plants … Ferns, Mosses, and Mushrooms … Trees … Plants that Help and Heal

PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD … 105 Lots of People! … Languages and Cultures … City Life … Farm Life

POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT … 125 Countries … Wars … Governments … American Government … U.S. State Facts and Trivia

HOW THINGS WORK … 143

Nuts and Bolts … Buildings … Moving on the Ground … Flying High … The Water Highway … Communications and Electronic Devices … Pictures, Lights, and Lasers … Handy Things around the House

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MATH, MEASUREMENT, AND TIME … 179 Numbers and Counting … Weights and Measures … Calendars and Telling Time

ALL ABOUT MY BODY … 197 Bones and Joints … Muscle Power … My Building Blocks … Blood … Organs …

Hair, Skin, and Nails … My Senses … Eating and Drinking … Sickness and Health … Disabilities and Substance Abuse

DAILY LIFE … 231 Home Life … Families … Pets … Going to School … Serving My Community … Internet Safety … Bicycle Tips … Other Safety Tips … Tough Questions: Divorce, Death, God

Introduction

When Visible Ink’s publisher, Roger Jänecke, approached me about updating the first edition ofThe Handy Answer Book for Kids (and Parents),I was a bit skepti-cal. Why, one might ask, update a great reference book that contains just about every question kids from ages 4 to 12? Well, the answer is simple: Because kids ask the darndest things … and they keep asking … and asking.…

Anyone who has ever been a kid, or had a kid, or hung out with a kid, knows that asking questions is what kids do. It happens to be a great way to find out about the world around you. Kids have an insatiable hunger for information and a curios-ity that winds its way down every road. And it’s an adult’s job to satisfy that yearn-ing for learning—by answering the questions you know, or by pointing kids in the direction of a good reference book when you don’t.

Written with a child’s imagination in mind, this revised edition ofThe Handy Answer Book for Kids (and Parents)is bursting with nearly 800 questions and answers on just about every topic in a kid’s world. After collecting many new questions from moms and dads across the country, we were able supplement the book’s already popu-lar edition with intriguing information on dozens of different topics, helping parents provide answers that go beyond “because” and “it just is” and “I don’t know.” Consid-erThe Handy Answer Bookas a starting point—or for those who own the first edition, a punctuation mark—a launching pad that will send an inquisitive mind in many dif-ferent directions. Or think of it as a fun way to spend a few hours, flipping from page to page and absorbing new nuggets of trivia to introduce to your friends.

The expanded second edition focuses on subjects that are front-and-center in a child’s world, things that are part of kids’ daily lives or spark their imaginations— from the stars twinkling overhead to earthworms burrowing into the earth. By the way, do you know why stars seem to twinkle? Or how big Earth is? Can you name our plants and pull a quick definition of a dwarf star out of your hat? Can you answer the ever-popular question, “Why is the sky blue?” The expanded “Outer Space” and “Planet Earth and Our Moon” chapters provide answers to these ques-tions, explore the mysteries of the universe, and investigate weather-related phe-nomena (“What is a hurricane? An avalanche? Lightning? Thunder?”) and various features of our planet, including rainforests, deserts, oceans, and volcanoes.