ARE WE HERE YET?
QUESTIONS + ANSWERS + DRAWINGS BY AEVI (AGE 4 1/2)

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ARE WE HERE YET?
ANY 03 | Are We Here Yet? [WORKS ON PROGRESS 01]© 2016 Aevi Nakai Gluzman
ISBN: 978-1517248048
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Pre-Text (for grown-ups who may need them):
In the summer of 2015, I was in the Gili Islands, a small archipelago off the coast of Bali,
with Aevi who was four and a half years old. I had been noticing that Aevi had started
to ask a lot of questions about everything that occurred to him. At first I found this a bit
irritating, but then one day, a friend pointed out that I should pay more attention to hisquestions because they were quite interesting. So I did, and was indeed struck by thebrilliance and strangeness of the things he was asking. Whenever I could, I tried mybest to answer, but there were many questions to which I had no real answers. As we had
plenty of time on the island, I decided to write these particular conundrums down,
wait for several days, and then ask them back to Aevi. I found out that by the time hewas asked back the question, Aevi had forgotten about the fact that he was the one who
had asked them in the first place, which resulted in him thinking hard to come up with hisown answers to his own questions. After I had recorded a list of 26 questions through thisprocess, I asked Aevi if he could create a drawing for each of the questions and answers.
This book compiles the result of this extended internal dialogue mediated by an other.
You NakaiQUESTIONS[A] WHY IS YOUR HAIR STUCK INTO YOUR BRAIN?

[N] WHY ARE THERE MANY COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD?

[ B ] WHY ARE SOME HORSE POOPS OF DIFFERENT COLOR?

[O] WHY DO YOU HAVE A LOT OF BLOOD IN YOUR BRAIN?

[C] WHY DO CHICKENS WANT TO FLY A BIT?

[P] WHY DO FINGERS GET WRINKLED WHEN YOU ARE IN THE WATER FOR TOO LONG?

[D] WHAT IS THE LAST NUMBER?

[Q] WHY DO SOME PEOPLE HAVE CHICKENS AND SOME DON’T?

[E] WHAT AM I THINKING?

[R] WHY DO I HAVE A SHADOW?

[ F ] WHY DO DOORS OPEN?

[S] WHY DO YOU NEED NOISE?

[G] WHY DO CLOUDS LOOK LIKE ANIMALS?

[T] WHY DO I LIKE THINGS?

[H] WHY IS THE FIRST LINE OF “W” LONGER THAN THE SECOND?

[U] WHY IS IT SOMETIMES CLOUDY AND SOMETIMES SUNNY?

[ I ] WHY DO SOME BUGS WAKE UP IN THE NIGHT AND SOME BUGS WAKE UP IN THE MORNING?

[V] WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DIE?

[J] WHY IS THE SEA SO WILD?

[W] WHY DOES SMOKE GO AWAY WHEN IT’S HOT?

[K] WHY DO CLOUDS GET CLOSER AND CLOSER?

[X] WHY DO PEOPLE MOVE?

[L] WHY DO CRAYONS HAVE COLOR?

[Y] WHY DO YOU NEED FACES?

[M] WHO MADE GOD?

[Z] WHY DO YOU HAVE BOOKS?

[A]QUESTION:WHY IS YOUR HAIR STUCK INTO YOUR BRAIN?

[A]ANSWER:
BECAUSE THAT’S HOW LEAVES GROWQUESTION:[B]

WHY ARE SOME HORSE POOPSOF DIFFERENT COLOR?

[B]ANSWER:BECAUSE HORSES LOOK LIKE HORSES[C]QUESTION:
WHY DO CHICKENS WANT TO FLY A BIT?

[C]

ANSWER:
BECAUSE PEOPLE MADE THEM LIKE THAT[D]QUESTION:
WHAT IS THE LAST NUMBER?

[D]ANSWER:ONE[E ]QUESTION:
WHAT AM I THINKING?

[E ]ANSWER:I’M THINKING ABOUT MY MIND[F]QUESTION:
WHY DO DOORS OPEN?

[F]ANSWER:SO YOU CAN CLOSE THEM

[G]QUESTION:
WHY DO CLOUDS LOOK LIKE ANIMALS?

[G]ANSWER:
BECAUSE THE ANIMALS LIKE CLOUDSQUESTION:[H]

WHY IS THE FIRST LINE OF “W”
LONGER THAN THE SECOND?

[H]ANSWER:
BECAUSE IT LOOKS LIKE A GUYQUESTION:[I]

WHY DO SOME BUGS WAKE UP IN THE NIGHT
AND SOME BUGS WAKE UP IN THE MORNING?

ANSWER:[I]BECAUSE SOME CAN SEE IN THE DARKAND SOME IN THE LIGHT

[J ]QUESTION:
WHY IS THE SEA SO WILD?

[J ]ANSWER:BECAUSE IF IT WASN’T WILD IT WOULD DIE[K]QUESTION:
WHY DO CLOUDS GET CLOSER AND CLOSER?

[K]ANSWER:
THEY DON’T GET CLOSER

[L]QUESTION:
WHY DO CRAYONS HAVE COLOR?

[L]ANSWER:SO PEOPLE CAN DRAW RAINBOWS[M]QUESTION:
WHO MADE GOD?

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WORKS ON PROGRESS [01]“A ONCE-IN-A-LIFETIME BOOK ”
HERE ARE ANSWERS TO EVERYTHING YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW
BUT NEVER THOUGHT OF ASKING (AN INQUISITIVE PRESCHOOLER)
Four-and-a-half-year-old Aevi was full of questions about
the world, many of which were so difficult that no grownup around him had real answers to. So these were written
down and ask back to Aevi after several days by whichtime he had forgotten that he had asked them. This bookcollects the extraordinary answers Aevi gave to his own
questions, including:
WHAT IS THE LAST NUMBER?
WHY DO DOORS OPEN?
WHY DO CRAYONS HAVE COLOR?
WHO MADE GOD?
WHY DO I LIKE THINGS?
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DIE?
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