Ode to wonder - the perfect gift (for everyone!)

Children are often amazed. Why is the sea blue? Why does it get dark? Why is that man bald? Somewhere along the way to adulthood, most of us lose that open-mindedness. Gradually the fire of curiosity is extinguished: things are what they are, there is nothing new under the sun.

And that's a shame. Wonder gives color to life, helps to push our boundaries and encourages us to question false certainties. In Ode to wonder Caroline Pauwels makes an impassioned plea to look at the world again with that childlike view. In science and art, but also in the big and small moments of every day.

In this new hardcover edition she also wrote an afterword in response to the corona crisis. How does wonder help in difficult times? What can we learn from it? Illustrator Gerda Dendooven made appropriate drawings to accompany the text, which, like the selected poems by Bart Moeyaert, express wonder in all its versatility.