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Twenty Questions Hardcover – Picture Book, March 14, 2023

by Mac Barnett (Author), Christian Robinson (Illustrator)
4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
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Award-winning creators Mac Barnett and Christian Robinson tap deep into childhood curiosity with a mind-tickling ode to the open-ended.

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 vivid life by Caldecott Honor recipient Christian Robinson’s bright and whimsical illustrations, Twenty Questions is a charming invitation to speculate without limits and know no bounds.
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    4 - 8 years
  2. Print length
    40 pages
  3. Language
    English
  4. Grade level
    Preschool - 3
  5. Dimensions
    8.81 x 0.43 x 10.56 inches
  6. Publisher
    Candlewick
  7. Publication date
    March 14, 2023
  8. ISBN-10
    1536215139
  9. ISBN-13
    978-1536215137
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"Asks questions that spur contemplation and wonder."

— Publishers Weekly

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"Mind-blowing in the best possible way."

— Horn Book (starred review)

"A must purchase that will satisfy old fans and create new ones."

— School Library Journal (starred review)

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K-Gr 2—Reminiscent of Chris Van Allsburg's Mysteries of Harris Burdick,but without the eeriness, Barnett captions a set of Robinson's flattened, brightly hued, paper-collage style cartoon scenes with open-ended questions for inventive storysmiths: "How many animals can you not see in this [picture] because they're hiding from the tiger?" "What is this boy" (who is standing between an ostrich and a tortoise in a wheelchair) "hiding behind his back?" "What kind of beast lives in this bathtub? And what does it eat?" The illustrator gets into the act by challenging viewers to concoct plotlines from random common items set in wordless arrays on the endpapers and, in a surreal transformation that just gets stranger the more it's looked at, turning one of a pair of lion paws in a scene into a full lion by adding a few inked lines and a tail. And perhaps with an eye to the Oh, the Places You'll Go! market, at the end a ship heads for the horizon. "Will you go with it? Are you ever coming back?" VERDICT An inspiring set of story prompts for younger audiences, with some longer thoughts for older ones slipped in.—John Edward Peters

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In an endlessly inventive, tongue-in-cheek fashion, the eternally celebrated Barnett joins forces with Caldecott nominee Robinson to craft a series of questions that work in creative tandem with the illustrations. . . Stimulating conversation starters encourage children to use their imaginations. . . This unconventional picture book will be a hit in storytimes and for one-on-one sharing, as the responses will probably change whenever the book is read. Barnett and Robinson are both superstars in their own right. Together, and with a book that's built for rereading, this won't stay on shelves for long.
—Booklist (starred review)

Each spread creates its own world, inviting readers to discuss. . . A humorous vein runs through the book, but other emotions are also evoked, including poignancy. . . The clever, attractive final spread—posterworthy—manages to be both open-ended and final. Humans depicted are diverse. . . .Quirky entertainment to jump-start creativity.
—Kirkus Reviews

Barnett and Robinson (Leo: A Ghost Story) reteam for this interactive picture book, which asks questions that spur contemplation and wonder. . . . Across a string of expansive queries, the images’ quiet understatement provides a dry counterpoint to the questions’ whimsy. . . Some pages invite speculation. . . others tease. . . All of them set readers free to notice and invent.
—Publishers Weekly

This conversation-starting picture book presents a series of questions and invites children to supply the answers. . . . Robinson’s textured mixed-media collages provide just enough detail and sometimes pose visual questions on which the text doesn’t even touch. . . . Even the endpapers are a delight, Robinson turning everyday objects (a banana, a mug) into question marks. This is creative, interactive picture-book fun, without question.
—The Horn Book

Barnett captions a set of Robinson’s flattened, brightly hued, paper-collage style cartoon scenes with open-ended questions for inventive story smiths. . . An inspiring set of story prompts for younger audiences, with some longer thoughts for older ones slipped in.
—School Library Journal

Curious souls will be intrigued by this picture book that wanders through questions to stories. Interactive and brought to life with Christian Robinson’s vivid illustrations, Mac Barnett’s Twenty Questions is the perfect gift for families to last throughout childhood as the open-ended nature to the book keeps it fresh and new.
—The Barnes & Nobel Blog

Product details

  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Candlewick (March 14, 2023)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 40 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1536215139
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1536215137
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 4 - 8 years
  • Grade level ‏ : ‎ Preschool - 3
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 13.6 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.81 x 0.43 x 10.56 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 34 ratings

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    Mac Barnett is a New York Times-bestselling author whose books for children have sold more than one million copies in the United States and have been translated into over 30 languages. His picture books include two Caldecott-Honor-winning collaborations with Jon Klassen: Sam & Dave Dig a Hole, which also won the E.B White Read-Aloud Award, and Extra Yarn, which won both the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award and the E.B. White Read-Aloud Award. Leo: A Ghost Story, illustrated by Christian Robinson, and The Skunk, illustrated by Patrick McDonnell, were named two of the Ten Best Illustrated Books of 2015 by The New York Times. Mac's novels include the Brixton Brothers series of mystery novels The Terrible Two series. He lives in Oakland, California.

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    Christian Robinson is a 2016 Caldecott Honoree and also received a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor for his art in Last Stop on Market Street by Matt de la Peña (Putnam, 2015); de la Peña himself took home the 2016 Newbery Medal, awarded by the Association for Library Service to Children for the "most distinguished book for children."

    Leo: A Ghost Story, illustrated by Robinson and written by Mac Barnett (Chronicle, 2015), was named a 2015 New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book of the Year. His Josephine: The Dazzling Life of Josephine Baker, written by Patricia Hruby Powell (Chronicle, 2014) received numerous awards and accolades including a Sibert Informational Book Award Honor and a Coretta Scott King Award Illustration Honor from the American Library Association; a Boston Globe-Horn Book Nonfiction Honor; a Parents Choice Gold Medal for Poetry 2014; and a place on the Wall Street Journal's 10 Best Children's Books of the Year List. Robinson, based in San Francisco, is also an animator and has worked with The Sesame Street Workshop and Pixar Animation Studios.

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4.4 out of 5 stars
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Destined to be one of the best picture books of 2023
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Destined to be one of the best picture books of 2023
Mac Barnett and Christian Robinson are two of the best in the business, and it's a real pleasure to experience this wonderful new collaboration. It's a book of open ended questions to spark conversation and curiosity and imagination. It's a genius concept that will lead to very fun read alouds. It must have been a lot of fun to come up with both the prompts and the illustrations without giving anything away - and providing plenty of material for kids to give their own silly answers. There's a lot of humor in just how open ended they are - and that's definitely made me bookmark it as one of the best of 2023 so far.
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Rosanna B
5.0 out of 5 stars Love to read with my 5 year old
Reviewed in the United States on January 14, 2024
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It's all silly questions and I love the answers he comes up with. Great book for interacting while reading.
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Tucker
5.0 out of 5 stars Practicing Inferring
Reviewed in the United States on October 24, 2023
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I teach multiple grades K-6th. It was interesting to see the differences in responses to the questions from the different ages of children. Every student was interested and engaged. They liked that it was no pressure of a right or wrong answer. It was all about inferring using their own perspective. It was really cool to see and hear their thought process. It’s a great book to get students practicing language acquisition skills.
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The only way
5.0 out of 5 stars Really great children's book
Reviewed in the United States on April 3, 2024
Really great children's book I really liked it for my kids and they really learned really good stuff from it
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Molly
5.0 out of 5 stars kinder fun
Reviewed in the United States on June 17, 2023
Buying this for my kinder class! They will love it! I can’t wait to hear all of their responses and why they came up with that answer.
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Todd Harper
5.0 out of 5 stars Promotes creative thinking and discussions
Reviewed in the United States on March 28, 2023
Not really a “story”, the book presents a question along with an often quirky illustration, inviting the reader to make up an answer and a story about what is going on. We laughed out loud, but I still do not know how the cow got atop the wind turbine.

Another review complains that in two spreads, there are black people, which in their view makes the questions racially charged. I think they completely miss the point of the book - nothing suggests that there is a “right” answer to each question (eg that the author *wants* you to say the black woman robbed the bank). Yeah, it is entirely possible that a kid will offer up a racist tale about how they know who robbed the bank, and *gasp* that would be an opportunity to correct them. So, while I do not feel like the book has an agenda, it’s just pictures and questions, yes, it might prompt a discussion about race, which you should be having because as they said, it’s 2023.
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chris kelly
2.0 out of 5 stars I didn't care for the questions
Reviewed in the United States on February 23, 2024
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I bought this for a 5 year olds birthday.
I thought the idea was good but I didn't like the questions they asked.
I put it in neighborhood library. I never gave it to child.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Destined to be one of the best picture books of 2023
Reviewed in the United States on March 29, 2023
Mac Barnett and Christian Robinson are two of the best in the business, and it's a real pleasure to experience this wonderful new collaboration. It's a book of open ended questions to spark conversation and curiosity and imagination. It's a genius concept that will lead to very fun read alouds. It must have been a lot of fun to come up with both the prompts and the illustrations without giving anything away - and providing plenty of material for kids to give their own silly answers. There's a lot of humor in just how open ended they are - and that's definitely made me bookmark it as one of the best of 2023 so far.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Destined to be one of the best picture books of 2023
Reviewed in the United States on March 29, 2023
Mac Barnett and Christian Robinson are two of the best in the business, and it's a real pleasure to experience this wonderful new collaboration. It's a book of open ended questions to spark conversation and curiosity and imagination. It's a genius concept that will lead to very fun read alouds. It must have been a lot of fun to come up with both the prompts and the illustrations without giving anything away - and providing plenty of material for kids to give their own silly answers. There's a lot of humor in just how open ended they are - and that's definitely made me bookmark it as one of the best of 2023 so far.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome Author
Reviewed in the United States on May 20, 2023
We are huge fans of Mac Barnett. We checked it out at our library and immediately after reading it my 7 year old daughter asked if we could buy it and do we did!
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