Atheneum, 2012
$16.99, ages 4-8, 40 pages
This town's superheroes are no match for Question Boy, a masked crusader on the search for answers. But will an opinionated girl who won't stop talking have all the facts the boy needs?
Or will she just be really difficult to talk to?
Or will she just be really difficult to talk to?
In this funny, clever picture book, Question Boy (a boy who wants to know everything) and Little-Miss-Know-It-All (a girl who thinks she already does) face off in a verbal brawl that has each blurting out words at each other.
In the end, Question Boy and Little-Miss-Know-It-All both get the words knocked out of them, but in doing so, they discover they're more alike than they knew. Both are extroverted and inquisitive, but in an needling sort of way that isn't getting them what they really want.
As the story begins, Question Boy (dressed in a cape and leotard with a "Q" on his chest), goes around town with an unquenchable need to know. He seeks out the town's action heroes, municipal workers and private employees in tights, and drills them with questions about what they do.
But before they can answer his first question, he's onto another and pestering them about "what if" scenarios that they either have no time to answer or have no idea how to answer.
First Question Boy comes upon Garbage Man in a body-hugging suit ridding the city of filth, and interrupts his busy morning with questions that seem to have no end.
"How much stuff can you fit in your truck?" he asks, as Garbage Man hurls bags of trash into the back of his truck. Of course, Garbage Man isn't exactly sure, so he vaguely answers, "A lot."
But this doesn't satisfy Question Boy, so he bombards him with followup questions: Could you fit an elephant into the truck, a whale, how about a brontosaurus or the moon?
A glazed and confused look comes over Garbage Man's face and, fearing another onslaught of overwhelming qu
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