Ever Wonder Why?: Here Are the Answers! [Paperback]

Why? is the first question we learn to ask as children and the one our parents have the hardest time answering. This is because Why? is the most difficult question to research.

Why is the color blue used for boys?
Why do worms come out onto sidewalks after a rain?
Why do chefs wear tall hats?

Everyone knows that . . . 

. . . Donuts have holes
. . . We clink glasses before saying a toast
. . . Golfers yell “fore!” before teeing off
. . . We not our heads yes and shake our heads no 

But how many of us know why? You'll learn the answers and a whole lot more in this fun and fact-filled almanac. And all you have to do is ask WHY?!Douglas B. Smith is the author of Ever Wonder Why? and its sequel, More Ever Wonder Why?Preface
 
Ever wonder why books have prefaces?
 
The word preface comes from a Latin word praefatio, which means “to speak before.” The purpose of a preface, then, is to speak to the readers before they read the main part of the book and tell them what the book is about.
 
This is a book about WHY: why so many barns are red, why Southern men are nicknamed “Bubba,” why you never see cashew nuts in their shells, why breaking a mirror is seven years bad luck, why a square boxing enclosure is called a “ring,” and why you see those crescent moons carved into outhouses. If questions like these make you wonder, you will like this book. It answers about three hundred such questions, with the emphasis in every case being on why something is the way it is. Not who, what, when, where, or how, but why. “Why?&lÃr