"From Academy Award-nominated producer Brian Grazer and acclaimed business journalist Charles Fishman comes a brilliantly entertaining peek into the weekly "curiosity conversations" that have inspired Grazer to create some of America's favorite and iconic movies and television shows--from 24 to A Beautiful Mind. For decades, film and TV producer Brian Grazer has scheduled a weekly "curiosity conversation" with an accomplished stranger. From scientists...

Three curious kittens watch a fish in his bowl and wonder what it would be like to swim like that.

Lizard finds his concept of the world challenged when he goes out to find the edge of the world.

In her eagerness to go poking about everywhere, little Tumbling Alice tumbles over in the most unthinkable places. She tumbles into the alarm clock, into the bottle and into the back of drawers. She even tumbles into her daddy?s jacket pocket. Luckily she always manages to escape! .

"Aberdeen is a small mouse with a big sense of adventure. He never meant to leave the yard in the first place. BUT a balloon floated by and.... Join Aberdeen on his playful romp and his endearing search for his mama!"--

"Rediscover-or discover for the first time-the things that make you passionate in life. Vital Signs is about what inspires passion and what defeats it. How we lose it and how we get it back. And, ultimately, it's about the endless yet endlessly fruitful tug-of-war between freedom and domestication, the wild in us and the tame, our natural selves and our conditioned selves. Each chapter in Gregg Levoy's Vital Signs contains a core sample, an intimate...

Publisher Annotation: Young Benjamin Franklin wants to be a sailor, but his father won?t hear of it. The other trades he tries ? candle maker, joiner, boot closer, turner ? bore him through and through. Curious and inventive, Ben prefers to read, swim, fly his kite, and fly his kite while swimming. But each time he fails to find a profession, he takes some important bit of knowledge with him. That tendency is exactly what leads him to become the astonishingly...

Publisher Annotation: In a world in which we're never far from our phones or tablets, computers or consoles, we need to be reminded of the joy that can be found in the great outdoors. Our phones may be smarter, but our experiences have shrunk down to the screens in front of our eyes. The Wild Book offers a magic portal to the games, activities and wonders that await in the outside world. From how to build a treehouse, catch fish with a homemade...