Do Penguins Have Knees?: An Imponderables' Book

By David Feldman

Book Overview

The fifth book in David Feldman's bestselling Imponderables(R) series, packed with even more answers to perplexing questions and solutions to everyday mysteries

Culled from the thousands of letters submitted by desperate fans, Do Penguins Have Knees? answers 100 new and even more perplexing questions about food, popular culture, the human body, science, and more, such as:

Why are the oceans salty?Why is Rhode Island called an island when it obviously isn't an island?Why aren't there plums in plum pudding?Why do fish float upside-down when they die?And more

With over 190 irresistible entries and charming illustrations by longtime Imponderables(R) collaborator Kassie Schwan, Do Penguins Have Knees? is an Imponderables(R) classic.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060740914
• ISBN13: 9780060740917
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Answers to questions I never knew I had!

I recently found this book in the National Library Service for the Blind's Talking Book catalog and on their pilot web site for their new digital format. Curious, I downloaded a copy to see what Imponderables was all about. The short of it is that the Imponderables series takes little questions about things we encounter in everyday life, little things that, though we've never questioned how or why they got to be the way...

So THAT'S the Answer To My Question!

It's a fun, informative book that holds the interest of pre-teens and adults alike. I would recommend the whole series to everyone.

Even someone who hasn't read a book in years will like this one.

Feldman keeps producing these books of imponderables;and they just keep getting better all the time. His books just go on asking questions and producing answers about those unlimited number of things we've all wondered about,and even many that we have come to accept as "that's just the way it is". Feldman encourages his readers to send in their own imponderables to answer ;much in the same way that Allan Funt did with Practical...

Pondering the Imponderables

The author has a good formula going here. He takes an offbeat question and consults various experts, coming up with a plausible answer. Most of these I never would have thought to ask, but I still found myself intrigued by the answers. The questions include such topics as: *How do 3-D movies and 3-D glasses work? *Why do the rear windows of taxis only go part way down? *Why does grease turn white when it cools? *Why can't...

For thsoe that have a thrist for odd bits of strange triva

With this book anyone should be able to stop those silly questions that run around the world wild. I greatly enjoy it and pop it open again and again whenever I run into a person that asks questions like "Why do coupons have 1/100 of a cent value"