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Father Knows Less Or: Can I Cook My Sister? by Wendell Jamieson

Thu, 09/06/2007

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“Where does the wind come from?”

“What does it feel like to be stabbed?”

“Why is the sky blue?”

Who hasn’t been asked one of these questions by a young child, and suddenly found themselves hemming, hawing and desperately trying to think of an answer? Unless you have Calvin’s (as in the witty comic strip, Calvin and Hobbes) dad’s ability to lie with panache and ease, most of us grind to a halt and then weakly admit we just don’t know.

Luckily, such need no longer be the case. Wendell Jamieson, challenged once too often by his precocious son, decided to get some answers. His resolve eventually led him across the nation as he queried brain surgeons, sea captains, museum curators and Yoko Ono in his quest to help his son figure out the world.

Released today, September 6^th, Father Knows Less Or: Can I Cook My Sister is an invaluable field manual to surviving the slings and arrows of every kid’s curiosity and is a must for parents everywhere – or for those who simply need to know what hurts more: being stung by a jellyfish, or run over by a car?

Watch a hilarious QuickTime trailer for this book in which kids test the knowledge of an array of NYC dads – who give the following answers when asked where the wind comes from!