Father Knows Less Or: ''Can I Cook My Sister?''

✍ Scribed by Jamieson, Wendell

• Book ID: 107499601
• Publisher: Penguin Group US
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 355 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781101221235

✦ Synopsis

Kids ask the darndest questionsand the answers make for a ''funny and fascinating''(Publishers Weekly) book.

Wendell Jamieson's son, Dean, has always had a penchant for asking odd questions. ''Dad, what would hurt moregetting run over by a car, or getting stung by a jellyfish?'' ''Dad, why do policemen like donuts?'' ''Dad, does Mona Lisa wear shoes?'' Because Dad is a newspaperman and city editor for The New York Times, he decided to seek out the real answers to Dean's questions from top expertsmovie directors and ship captains, brain surgeons and stabbing victims, a Buddhist monk and a bra fitter, and even Yoko Ono. Their father-son journey for answers to the toughand weirdquestions of life is a sometimes surprising, often hilarious, and always fascinating celebration of the value and beauty of childlike curiosity.