{"product_id":"just-because-9780763696801","title":"Just Because","description":"\u003cb\u003eCurious minds are rewarded with curious answers in a fantastical bedtime book by Mac Barnett and Isabelle Arsenault.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhy is the ocean blue? What is the rain? What happened to the dinosaurs? \u003c\/i\u003eIt might be time for bed, but one child is too full of questions about the world to go to sleep just yet. Little ones and their parents will be charmed and delighted as a patient father offers up increasingly creative responses to his child's nighttime wonderings. Any child who has ever asked \"Why?\" -- and any parent who has attempted an explanation -- will recognize themselves in this sweet storybook for dreamers who are looking for answers beyond \"Just because.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMac Barnett\u003c\/b\u003e, the 2025-2026 National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, is a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebest-selling author of stories for children. His work has been translated into more than thirty languages and sold more than five million copies worldwide. Mac Barnett's books have won many prizes, including two Caldecott Honors, three \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\/ New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children's Book Awards, three E. B. White Read-Aloud Awards, the \u003ci\u003eBoston Globe-Horn Book \u003c\/i\u003eAward, Germany's Jugendliteraturpreis, China's Chen Bochui International Children's Literature Award, the Netherlands' Zilveren Griffel, and Italy's Premio Orbil. He is the cocreator, with Jon Klassen, of the Substack \u003ci\u003eLooking at Picture Books\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as \u003ci\u003eShape Island\u003c\/i\u003e, a stop-motion animated series on Apple TV+, based on their best-selling Shapes series of picture books. Mac Barnett lives in Oakland, California. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eIsabelle Arsenault \u003c\/b\u003eis the creator of \u003ci\u003eAlpha \u003c\/i\u003eand the illustrator of several other picture books, including \u003ci\u003eJane, the Fox, and Me\u003c\/i\u003e by Fanny Britt, a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e Best Illustrated Children's Book of the Year; \u003ci\u003eCaptain Rosalie \u003c\/i\u003eby Timothée de Fombelle; and \u003ci\u003eCloth Lullaby: The Woven Life of Louise Bourgeois\u003c\/i\u003e by Amy Novesky. Isabelle Arsenault lives in Montreal.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Candlewick Press (MA)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50613272281362,"sku":"9780763696801","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1df8bc87-905d-4c42-9e95-3f558befebdc.jpg?v=1769532117","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/just-because-9780763696801","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}