It started with a question nobody could answer.
Every parent knows the moment. “Why does the moon follow our car?” — and the “I’ll look it up” that never happens. Most encyclopedias are written from the answer down: pick a topic, list the facts, hope a child cares. 100,000 Whys was built the other way — it collects the questions kids actually ask out loud, then answers each one through a comic built around how children think. That one flip is why kids read it on their own.