Wendell Jamieson

It was cute, and it was in relation to his son. My thing with the question books is that they never intrigue me enough. I want something I never thought about to be answered in an intriguing and thoughtful way. Put into a simple explanation. Kind of like a head slap for not realizing it. Sadly, this wasn't that book.

The questions and answers are more interesting than Jamieson's anecdotes about his family life, but it's still informative. You'll almost certainly learn three things you wanted to know and one thing that you could have lived without.

So this book was not what I expected. It is really more of a memoir about being a father and reminiscing about once being a son. Questions are included from both of them as well as other children, but the majority of the book is about why children ask the questions they do and the circumstances surrounding the specific questions of the two. Because of this there are some real insights into parenting that would not be if the book was a simple encyclopedia of children's questions.

Diciamo che la parte buffa del libro è costituita da alcune domande dei bambini (spesso il figlio dell'autore), le parti interessanti del libro sono le risposte degli esperti (tralasciando quelle a cui solo uno statunitense puo' essere interessato), la (ampia) parte noiosa del libro è quella dove l'autore parla estesamente dei fatti suoi e della sua famiglia. Il tutto scritto in modo standard (come spesso si scrivono i libri non utili) e finto-simpatico-ammiccante.