In the spirit of Schott?s Miscellany, The Magic of Reality, and The Dangerous
Book for Boys comes Can a Bee Sting a Bee??a smart, illuminating, essential, and
utterly delightful handbook for perplexed parents and their curious children.
Author Gemma Elwin Harris has lovingly compiled weighty questions from
precocious grade school children?queries that have long dumbfounded even
intelligent adults?and she?s gathered together a notable crew of scientists,
specialists, philosophers, and writers to answer them. Authors Mary Roach and
Phillip Pullman, evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, chef Gordon Ramsay,
adventurist Bear Gryllis, and linguist Noam Chomsky are among the top experts
responding to the Big Questions from Little People, (?Do animals have
feelings??, ?Why can?t I tickle myself??, ?Who is God??) with well-known
comedians, columnists, and raconteurs offering hilarious alternative answers.
Miles above your average general knowledge and trivia collections, this charming
compendium is a book fans of the E.H. Gombrich classic, A Little History of the
World, will adore.