An illustrated hardcover encyclopedia built around the questions children ask every day. Why is the ocean salty? How does a plane stay up? What happened to the dinosaurs? Each of its 174 questions gets a short, plain answer, and the book is arranged in six chapters so a child can browse from rockets to volcanoes to dinosaurs and back. It is the one to keep within reach for the years of constant questions.
What is inside
174 questions in six chapters — science, nature, history, technology, space and a closing section titled Explore, Discover, Learn. Topics you will find across those chapters include:
- Space and Earth — black holes, planets and rockets; volcanoes, earthquakes and how the Earth formed.
- Animals and nature — how animals survive and migrate, why the ocean is salty, how waves form, why leaves change colour.
- The human body and brain — why your heart beats, why you dream, how memory works.
- Science and technology — gravity, light, sound and electricity; how planes fly and how the internet works.
- History and dinosaurs — ancient Egypt, the Romans and great inventions; why the dinosaurs died out and how we find them.
Who it suits
- Ages 6–8 — read together; pick one question a night and let the illustrations lead.
- Ages 9–12 — reads alone; easy to browse by picture and come back to with a question of their own.
- Families who want one book on the shelf for the years of constant questions, rather than a phone.
How families use it
Keep it where the questions happen — the kitchen table, the car, beside the bed. When a question comes up, look it up together; when one does not, the pictures give a child a reason to open it anyway. It is organised question by question, so it is a book to dip into rather than read in order.
Good to know
- Hardcover, illustrated. Text is in English.
- 120,000 Whys is the title rather than a count; this edition holds 174 questions across six chapters.
- General-interest reference for children. It supplements school material rather than replacing a curriculum.
