SuitabookBig questions from little people--- and simple answers from great minds
Gemma Elwin Harris
- Reading
- Dip in rather than read straight through. Let the child choose a question, pause after the answer, and follow up by checking whether another contributor's viewpoint changes, qualifies or complicates the first response.
- Themes
- Curiosity across disciplines: Children's questions are answered by contributors associated with several fields, with examples including animals, water, space, electricity, blood, language and art. The book presents questioning as a route into varied kinds of knowledge.
- Big questions and simple answers: Questions include who God is, what makes someone themselves, where goodness comes from and how the universe could arise from nothing. The book’s stance on this remains unclear.
- Human difference and identity: The collection includes questions about what a person is made of, how the brain controls them, facial hair and differences in skin colour. These subjects are present, but there is not enough information to characterise the book's evaluative treatment of them.
- Worth knowing
- Some questions touch on religion, death-adjacent ideas about existence, bodies, sex differences, skin colour, love, tiredness and how the brain works. Their treatment may vary by contributor, so context and tone are worth checking together.