Questions Asked
  • Published: 14 August 2017
  • ISBN: 9780914671664
  • Imprint: NY Review Books
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 72
  • RRP: $24.99

Questions Asked

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A book of philosphical questions for young children, by the acclaimed author of SOPHIE'S WORLD (over 40 million copies sold worldwide).

Early readers of SOPHIE'S WORLD are now old enough to have young children of their own.

A picture book with fundamental philosophical questions, posed in a way only Jostein Gaarder is capable of. The illustrator has made an independent visual narrative that underscores the existential aspect of Jostein Gaarder's philosophical questions. Questions Asked shows confidence in a child's capacity to think deeply and read between the lines. The book follows a little boy traveling alone in an open landscape. Soon we realize he is on a journey of thoughts and dreams, asking questions about loss, myth, language, magic, and what it means to be a human being. Jostein Gaarder's philosophical questions merge with the beautiful illustrations of Akin Düzakin into a tale of friendship, love, and grief - and about daring to think about life as you live it.
  • Published: 14 August 2017
  • ISBN: 9780914671664
  • Imprint: NY Review Books
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 72
  • RRP: $24.99
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Praise for Questions Asked

-- Praise for Sophie's World --

"A marvellously rich book. Its success boils down to something quite simple - Gaarder's gift for communicating ideas." --The Guardian

"Challenging, informative and packed with easily grasped, and imitable, ways of thinking about difficult ideas." --Independent

"Remarkable...what Jostein Gaarder has managed to do is condense 3000 years of thought into 400 pages; to simplify some extremely complicated arguments without trivialising them...an extraordinary achievement." --Sunday Times

"A whimsical and ingenious mystery novel that also happens to be a history of philosophy... What is admirable in the novel is the utter unpretentiousness of the philosophical lessons." --Washington Post