Why Explore?

by Susan Lendroth

Rhyming text and illustrations present the human desire to seek out the unknown and to learn as a result of it. Includes nonfiction author's note. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1582461503
• ISBN13: 9781582461502
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Tricycle Press
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 11.3" x 10.3"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

Love Learning

Susan Lendroth's WHY EXPORE? repeats this basic question of human existence at the beginning of each section. Sometimes a parent asks a child why she must go far from home and other times a younger person asks his elder why she or he researches ancient junk (archeology), dirty water (microscopic organisms), invisible matter (sub-atomic particles), etc. Some people sought adventure, but others a better life, and still others knowledge. WHY EXPLORE, told in rhyme, looks at the joys of learning new things. It subtly encourages the reader to think, to grow, to have a passion for knowing. At the end of the book, more details are given about various discoveries and quests for knowledge. Enrique S. Moreiro's muted oil painting illustrations are at times epic and at times sparse. Karen Woodworth Roman, Librarian, Children's Science Book Review

Why? Every child's question...

This richly illustrated and lyrically written book gives reassurance to every child that asking why and curiousity about our world is timeless. As the book gently takes the young reader through explorations ranging from Polynesian navigators to particle physics, the author encourages the child to seek answers to his/her own questions about our world.