Ever Wonder Why?

This book is not intended to be an academic scholastic educational tool, it's intended for entertainment.

This is a book that will help conversation. When people sneeze, I explain why we say "Bless you!" I explain how Halloween was named. Great book to share read with. Just a fun book to have. It also makes a great bathroom reader.

I found this little book full of information. I now give this book out as gifts to friends and they love it too!!! I hope a new one will come out for me to wonder even less.

Very interesting book but it was surprisingly small. I've bought other fact books and this one was filled with new outlooks and interesting answers such as "Why do we toast before drinking?" and "Why are tennis balls fuzzy?"
If you're looking for something like this try Why Do Men Have Nipples? Hundreds of Questions You'd Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Martini and the book's sequel Why Do Men Fall Asleep After Sex?: More Questions You'd Only Ask a Doctor After Your Third Whiskey Sour. Another good one is 2201 Fascinating Facts: 2 Vols. in One.

The question "Why?" is the most difficult question to answer. Douglas B. Smith put together a compilation of more than 200 questions about everyday sayings and trends so people may not take them for granted. The word "piggybank", for example, did not originate with the pig, the farm animal that says "oink, oink", but the orange clay of old European dishes and cookware, called "pygg". Wedding and marital traditions are covered extensively, and so are nautical expressions. One example of the latter is the "devil", as in "there'll be the devil to pay" and "between the devil and the deep blue sea"; that is the hard-to-reach seam, below the waterline most of the time, on a ship built with wood. It is so good a read it even addresses the simple question that many children wonder, like "Why is the sky blue?"
This book even explains -- in the preface -- the origin of the preface, and contains an eight-page index. A "must read" for those who are curious about everyday phenomena. I also recommend the "Imponderables" series and "More Ever Wonder Why".