Do Dogs Have Chins? And Other Questions Without Answers
On sale
29th April 2025
Price: £12.99
Pondering the questions only kids would think to ask, this hilarious, poignant collection captures the wonder of a child’s imagination, brought to life by beloved New Yorker cartoonist Liana Finck.
‘A chance to leave all adult frippery behind and ponder what’s really important – our children have known it all along. This book is cleansing, reassuring, funny, and frequently profound; I loved it’. Susie Dent
Why does a ghost wander? Are bubbles in drinks their thoughts? Do dogs have chins? Where does the dark go when the light comes on? How will it feel on the last day I’m a child?
What’s the best question a kid ever asked you? When Sarah Manguso posted this question online, she immediately received hundreds of answers. Gathering more than one hundred of the best questions from this poll and bringing them brilliantly to life with illustrations by New Yorker cartoonist Liana Finck, Do Dogs Have Chins? ranges from the ridiculous to the sublime – encompassing birth, death, love dinosaurs, and everything in between – to show us the wit and wisdom of children in all their wondrous glory.
‘This book is for anyone who has secret questions in their mind they are too embarrassed to ask out loud. In other words, this book is for everyone’ Lemony Snicket, bestselling author of A Series of Unfortunate Events and All the Wrong Questions
‘A chance to leave all adult frippery behind and ponder what’s really important – our children have known it all along. This book is cleansing, reassuring, funny, and frequently profound; I loved it’. Susie Dent
Why does a ghost wander? Are bubbles in drinks their thoughts? Do dogs have chins? Where does the dark go when the light comes on? How will it feel on the last day I’m a child?
What’s the best question a kid ever asked you? When Sarah Manguso posted this question online, she immediately received hundreds of answers. Gathering more than one hundred of the best questions from this poll and bringing them brilliantly to life with illustrations by New Yorker cartoonist Liana Finck, Do Dogs Have Chins? ranges from the ridiculous to the sublime – encompassing birth, death, love dinosaurs, and everything in between – to show us the wit and wisdom of children in all their wondrous glory.
‘This book is for anyone who has secret questions in their mind they are too embarrassed to ask out loud. In other words, this book is for everyone’ Lemony Snicket, bestselling author of A Series of Unfortunate Events and All the Wrong Questions
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Reviews
This book is for anyone who has secret questions in their mind they are too embarrassed to ask out loud. In other words, this book is for everyone.
If you've ever spent any time around young children, you'll know that they take nothing for granted and that the world and everything in it is all news to them. The questions they ask are by turns serious, hilarious, deep, silly, and completely off the wall. Liana Finck's delightful drawings perfectly complement the text . . . A terrific book for anyone who has ever been around kids, or has been a kid themselves.
A miracle . . . Questions Without Answers captures the bewildering wonderment of a child's mind. It's the most profoundly silly and wise book I've read in years, and should be required reading for every philosophy graduate student or anyone considering having kids. Also I'll never think of sunroofs quite the same way again.
I loved this book. Each page is a love letter scribbled to my present self, from some space that still exists within me from childhood. It made me whole and left me heartbroken, all at once.
Sweet, smart, and shockingly insightful, this collection of questions asked by kids will leave you smiling and stumped. It reminds you of what it's like to be curious about everything, and it shows, conclusively, that kids are first-rate philosophers who can reshape the way we see the world.
A chance to leave all adult frippery behind and ponder what's really important - our children have known it all along. This book is cleansing, reassuring, funny, and frequently profound; I loved it.