Cool Philosophy: Filled with Facts for Kids of All Ages

By Daniel Tatarsky

Inside this philosophy-stuffed book are fifty fact-tastic ways to advance your thinking skills, so you'll never be scratching your head in bemusement ever again.

Featuring the key philosophic principles of every philosopher you've heard of (and some you haven't), from prominent ancient Greek thinkers such as Aristotle and Socrates to modern-day thinkers such as Bertrand Russell and Thomas Kuhn, Cool Philosophy is stuffed to the gills with amazing facts, tricks and stats to help you discover everything you need to know about what philosophy is - in a way you'll never forget.

Word count: 20,000

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 190939677X
• ISBN13: 9781909396777
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Protico
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.8" x 5.9"
• Age Range: 8 to 14 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 9

Customer Reviews

Filled with Fantastic facts

Everyone has to start somewhere. Usually, the best place to start is with a children’s book; this is because they describe things at the lowest common denominator. Then you can graduate to the real thing, but you will already have an idea of what you’re about to read. This is probably not the best children’s book to start with. Yes, it is filled with a lot of “Fantastic Facts for Kids of All Ages.” Many of the quips in this book are from the author and not the philosophers. You get a synopsis of what a philosopher might’ve said or done or eaten for breakfast, but not a coherent understanding of the particular philosopher or philosophy espoused. We get colors and graphs and cutesy pictures with statements that do not relate to the statement before or after. There are approximately 110 pages, and every two pages are on a particular subject or philosopher. This book does a good job of not leaving anyone of any significance out of the list. There is a small glossary in the back in case you’re looking for something specific instead of just reading the book from front to back. Unless you slow down and take notes, you will probably come away with nothing more than something like, “Did you know? Pythagoras was a vegetarian and insisted that his followers be too. One of the reasons for their aversion to eating meat was the belief that the human soul migrates into the bodies of animals after they die.”