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Cover of Just Because

Just Because

Mac Barnett (2019-09-10)

Subgenre
Age groupChildren 5-8
Content ratingG
Pages37 (Quick Read (<250))
Setting
CSM age5

Content levels

ViolenceNone
Sexual contentNone
LanguageNone

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Synopsis

Curious minds are rewarded with curious answers in a fantastical bedtime book by Mac Barnett and Isabelle Arsenault. Why is the ocean blue? What is the rain? What happened to the dinosaurs? It might be time for bed, but one child is too full of questions about the world to go to sleep just yet. Little ones and their parents will be charmed and delighted as a patient father offers up increasingly creative responses to his child’s nighttime wonderings. Any child who has ever asked “Why?” — and any parent who has attempted an explanation — will recognize themselves in this sweet storybook for dreamers who are looking for answers beyond “Just because.”

Is Just Because appropriate for my child?

Suitable for most readers 5 and up.

A gentle bedtime story celebrating curiosity and the creative answers parents give to children's endless questions about the world. Perfect for little ones who love to ask 'Why?'

What to know going in

This book has no graphic violence, no sexual content, and clean language.

Who'll love this

Kids will love hearing the fantastical answers to questions about why the ocean is blue and what happened to dinosaurs.

Tags

Bedtime StoryPicture BookWhimsical