Ellen Duthie is the co-founder of the Wonder Ponder philosophy and literature for children publisher and education project, based in Madrid (Spain). As a writer, she is best known for her Visual Philosophy for Children series (winner of the Andersen Prize for Best Publishing Project 2023), and is also the author of Is There Anybody Out There? Interplanetary Questionary for Intelligent Earthlings (White Ravens Award and “Los mejores del Banco del Libro” Award). Her fiction picture book Un par de ojos nuevos won the Spanish Bookseller’s Award for Best Children's Book in 2022. She has translated Maurice Sendak, Jules Feiffer, and John Burningham titles into Spanish.

"This is a copy of a book, which was found in a donutshaped spaceship on the beach near the Spanish city of Cádiz. It contains only the questions which the residents of the planet Bipopia wanted to ask Earth’s inhabitants, whose activities they have apparently been observing for some time. Did everything happen just as the foreword claims? Be that as it may. In any case, the questionnaire is brilliant and will surely cause the brain of every reader to sizzle. Is making mistakes part of human nature? Are you glad to be a human? Why? Can a man be female? Would it be good to know everything? Are there things for which there are no human words? Innumerable clever, witty, surprising, and tricky questions of the widest variety, organised in categories such as being human, knowledge, society, or art, can be found in this book. No answers are given, simply a lot of material to help the reader, alone or with others, to discuss and to think about oneself and the strange human race and come up with one’s own answers."

Ellen Duthie is the co-founder of the Wonder Ponder philosophy and literature for children publisher and education project, based in Madrid (Spain). As a writer, she is best known for her Visual Philosophy for Children series (winner of the Andersen Prize for Best Publishing Project 2023), and is also the author of Is There Anybody Out There? Interplanetary Questionary for Intelligent Earthlings (White Ravens Award and “Los mejores del Banco del Libro” Award). Her fiction picture book Un par de ojos nuevos won the Spanish Bookseller’s Award for Best Children's Book in 2022. She has translated Maurice Sendak, Jules Feiffer, and John Burningham titles into Spanish.

"This is a copy of a book, which was found in a donutshaped spaceship on the beach near the Spanish city of Cádiz. It contains only the questions which the residents of the planet Bipopia wanted to ask Earth’s inhabitants, whose activities they have apparently been observing for some time. Did everything happen just as the foreword claims? Be that as it may. In any case, the questionnaire is brilliant and will surely cause the brain of every reader to sizzle. Is making mistakes part of human nature? Are you glad to be a human? Why? Can a man be female? Would it be good to know everything? Are there things for which there are no human words? Innumerable clever, witty, surprising, and tricky questions of the widest variety, organised in categories such as being human, knowledge, society, or art, can be found in this book. No answers are given, simply a lot of material to help the reader, alone or with others, to discuss and to think about oneself and the strange human race and come up with one’s own answers."

Ellen Duthie is the co-founder of the Wonder Ponder philosophy and literature for children publisher and education project, based in Madrid (Spain). As a writer, she is best known for her Visual Philosophy for Children series (winner of the Andersen Prize for Best Publishing Project 2023), and is also the author of Is There Anybody Out There? Interplanetary Questionary for Intelligent Earthlings (White Ravens Award and “Los mejores del Banco del Libro” Award). Her fiction picture book Un par de ojos nuevos won the Spanish Bookseller’s Award for Best Children's Book in 2022. She has translated Maurice Sendak, Jules Feiffer, and John Burningham titles into Spanish.

"This is a copy of a book, which was found in a donutshaped spaceship on the beach near the Spanish city of Cádiz. It contains only the questions which the residents of the planet Bipopia wanted to ask Earth’s inhabitants, whose activities they have apparently been observing for some time. Did everything happen just as the foreword claims? Be that as it may. In any case, the questionnaire is brilliant and will surely cause the brain of every reader to sizzle. Is making mistakes part of human nature? Are you glad to be a human? Why? Can a man be female? Would it be good to know everything? Are there things for which there are no human words? Innumerable clever, witty, surprising, and tricky questions of the widest variety, organised in categories such as being human, knowledge, society, or art, can be found in this book. No answers are given, simply a lot of material to help the reader, alone or with others, to discuss and to think about oneself and the strange human race and come up with one’s own answers."