You know how sometimes kids ask annoying questions that, to adults, seem so inane? The ones like, "Why can't I eat ice cream for breakfast?" or, "What would happen if I stepped in lava?" The answers to those questions seem so basic to us ultra-mature adults that sometimes, when we answer them, we're so flippant that kids don't think we're taking them seriously.
Which we aren't. At least, I haven't been.
That's why this new book, "What Would Happen? Serious Answers to Silly Questions" has been such a fun volume to have in our house. This book takes all those questions and answers them FOR REAL. It gives scientific, economic, and medical backings to answer those silly questions as if the writers were taking the questions seriously. Which they are.
What if robots were as smart as humans? This book goes into the economic and social ramifications of that answer, but in a fun to read way.
What life would be like if the dinosaurs hadn't died, if we owned our own spaceships, and even if we had the force (yeah, like Star Wars)? Real-life answers are here!
My favorite answered question was the, "what would happen if everything was free?" one. Because doesn't every kid think free stuff is the answer? And man, thinking that free stuff is the answer to the world's problems really makes me upset. The basic economics this book teaches in two pages is pretty astounding.The fact that those teachings are done in a fun, and kid-relatable way, is even cooler.
"What Would Happen?" is a full-color book that keeps changing rooms in my house; and in our family that's the sign of a good book. Changing rooms = my kids keep reading it and taking it around with them. This book has nothing offensive in it and is one even adults can enjoy reading.
Author Crispin Boyer lives in Mexico and has authored several National Geographic Kids books.
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