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El principito es la maravillosa historia de un pequeño niño que viene de un planeta apenas mas grande que una casa, hace preguntas y busca respuestas a cosas que para los adultos pueden ser poco importantes.
The little prince is the marvellous story of a small boy who comes from a planet barely larger than a house, and who asks questions and seeks answers to things that for adults might be of little importance.
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Questioneers volume 3
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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Ada Twist is a very curious girl who shows perseverance by asking questions and performing experiments to find things out and understand the world.
4) Just because
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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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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"When you think you have the answers, you need to be asking a lot more questions-and embracing fearless curiosity. In this timely, personal guide, journalist Mónica Guzmán shows why curiosity is our best policy and how you can put it to work for you immediately, sharing practical tips from the trenches of the social, political, and cultural divides"--
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English
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"Curious? is one of those rare books that can make you rethink how you see the world."
—Arianna Huffington
"This is the perfect book to read when you are having second thoughts about challenging yourself to explore that next step in life!"
—Stephen Post, Ph.D., coauthor of Why Good Things Happen to Good People
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Balance
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Did you know that curiosity is your superpower? Though we often think of being curious as a personality trait, it's actually the foundation of our capacity for connection, growth, and healing. And at a moment when tensions over race, religion, age, gender identity, rights, economic status, and more have fractured our lives and relationships, curiosity is our most potent antidote. In this practical manifesto, Shigeoka takes readers on a four-phase...
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2015.
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English
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An "homage to the power of inquisitiveness and the ways in which it deepens and improves us. Whether you're looking to improve your management style at work or you want to become a better romantic partner, this book--and its lessons on the power of curiosity--can change your life"--
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Seasons (Wong Herbert Yee) volume 1
Publisher
H. Holt
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
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A little girl investigates tracks in the snow, trying to determine what could have made them.
12) Twenty questions
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2023.
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English
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"Not all questions have answers. Some have more than one answer. And others have endless answers, unfolding out to the edges of the world. In this spare yet expansive narrative, acclaimed author Mac Barnett poses twenty questions both playful and profound. Some make us giggle. Others challenge our assumptions. The result is a quirky, wandering exploration of where the best questions lead--to stories. Intriguing, richly interactive, and brought to...
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English
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The difference between those who struggle and those who succeed comes down not to grades or test scores, but to seven character traits -- confidence, empathy, self-control, integrity, curiosity, perseverance, and optimism. These traits will allow kids to roll with the punches and succeed in life and they can be taught to children at any age. In Thrivers, Dr. Borba offers practical, actionable ways to develop these traits in children from preschool...
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Ginny Goblin volume 1
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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Ginny tries to reach and open a box using a chair, then a grappling hook, then a catapult, while the narrator suggests ways to keep her away from it.
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Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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Each of King Neptunes 50 mermaid daughters boasts a special talent, except for little Minnow, who seems to be good only at asking questions. When she finds a strange object, Minnow follows her questions to a wondrous place and finds answers, including the answer to the most important question of all: Who am I? A gorgeously illustrated story about finding one's purpose.
16) Windows
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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Walking his dog at dusk, one boy catches glimpses of the lives around him in this lovely ode to autumn evenings, exploring your neighborhood, and coming home.
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English
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Astrophysicist and author Mario Livio investigates perhaps the most human of all our characteristics—curiosity—in this "lively, expert, and definitely not dumbed-down account" (Kirkus Reviews) as he explores our innate desire to know why.
Experiments demonstrate that people are more distracted when they overhear a phone conversation—where they can know only one side of the dialogue—than when they overhear...
Experiments demonstrate that people are more distracted when they overhear a phone conversation—where they can know only one side of the dialogue—than when they overhear...
19) The guest room
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Tess has a bad habit. She can't stop snooping through her guests' belongings . . . When Tess is forced to rent out her late sister's old room to pay the bills, the urge to rummage through her guests' belongings overtakes her every thought. Teasing herself with forbidden glimpses into the lives of strangers is a momentary thrill, but it's the closest she's felt to anyone since the mysterious death of her sister, Rosie. After her newest lodger, Arran,...
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Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
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"Ben Franklin loved to swim and, at the age of eleven, he was determined to swim like a fish--fins and all. This fictional account of young Ben's earliest invention follows the budding scientist's journey as he tests and retests his swim fins. That first big splash led Ben to even more innovations and inventions. Curiosity, experimentation, and originality filled Ben's life from an early age. His inventions and innovations affected not only his world...
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