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Just because  Cover Image Book Book

Just because

Barnett, Mac (author.). Arsenault, Isabelle, 1978- (illustrator.).

Summary: When a child is too full of questions about the world to go to sleep, her patient father offers up increasingly creative responses to his child's nighttime wonderings.

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  • ISBN: 9780763696801
  • Physical Description: print
    regular print
    1 volume (unpaged) : colour illustrations ; 31 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2019.
Subject: Bedtime -- Juvenile fiction
Curiosity -- Juvenile fiction
Father and child -- Juvenile fiction

Available copies

  • 7 of 8 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Sechelt/Gibsons.
  • 0 of 0 copies available at Gibsons Public Library.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 8 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Holdable? Status Due Date
Sechelt Public Library E BARN (Text) 33260100040014 Picture Books Volume hold Available -

  • Baker & Taylor
    When a child is too full of questions about the world to go to sleep, her patient father offers up increasingly creative responses to his child's nighttime wonderings.
  • Baker & Taylor
    A patient father offers fantastical, creative responses to a wakeful child’s nighttime questions, including why the ocean is blue, what the rain is and what happened to the dinosaurs. By the Caldecott Honor-winning author of Extra Yarn. Illustrations.
  • Random House, Inc.
    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.'
  • Random House, Inc.
    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.”

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