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Article: Stormy Night: Picture Book for Children, Ontological Inquiry.
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- The Horn Book Magazine
- Article date:
- May 1, 2000
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A little girl kisses her parents good night and heads up to bed. But she can't sleep. Too many questions are buzzing around in her head: "Where does infinity end?" "What exactly is fate?" "Can we each see our own soul?"
These are precisely the kinds of questions philosophers and theologians--thinkers of all ages and of all ages--ask themselves. It's what thinkers do. They are also the kind of questions to which there are no satisfactory answers. In Michele Lemieux's Stormy Night, published in North America by Kids Can Press, that is certainly the case. It's questions 46, answers 0.
Which would seem, on the surface of things, to be a whole lot of ...