Technical specs
Original title: Para que serve?
64 pages / 175 x 225 mm
ISBN: 9789898145987 / RRP: 13,90€
1st edition: March 2020
1st reprint: February 2022
© Rights sold: Basque, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Dutch, English, French, Italian, Korean, Spanish (Puerto Rico and North America), Spanish (World)
What’s it for?
(Portuguese edition)
This book likes to ask questions. This book prefers a world full of questions than a world with definitive answers.
Deep down, this book likes a bit of confusion and asks questions because it knows they will stir things up (and a world, without some complexity and confusion, is a sad and boring world).
Instead of providing answers, this book asks questions about questions. Especially about those questions that crop up most often.
How do you do that? And what for?
Good question(s).
See also:
Digital exhibition: original illustrations from the book
7 questions to José Maria Vieira Mendes
Technical specs
Original title: Para que serve?
64 pages / 175 x 225 mm
ISBN: 9789898145987 / RRP: 13,90€
1st edition: March 2020
1st reprint: February 2022
© Rights sold: Basque, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Dutch, English, French, Italian, Korean, Spanish (Puerto Rico and North America), Spanish (World)
Awards and recognitions
Special Mention – Bologna Ragazzi Award 2022 (BRAW)/ NON FICTION category
Selected — White Ravens Catalogue 2021
Recommended — Portuguese National Reading Plan
Selected — Nami Concours Exhibition 2023
What they say
Perfect as a read-aloud or for imagination stretching, this quirky book will make for rich discussions and mind-blowing conclusions.
Shelley M. Diaz, School Library Journal, Maio 2023
It’s above all a beautiful introduction to philosophy for children. Doubting, thinking again and questioning will always provide the essential starting points for more complex paths and pondering.
Expresso newspaper, June 2020
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