Polished sentences, rambling illustrations: The picture book “Thinking Thoughts” meditates on what happens in our heads.
“Knowledge and thinking are relatives, but not friends,” explain Annelies Beck and Hanneke Siemensma in their virtuoso picture book about the airiest topic in the world, about thinking thoughts. Not about specific thoughts, for example about philosophical wisdom, about the rule of three in math lessons or about career planning from daycare to retirement. But about thinking as a free activity in a head that sits on the neck and is round for exactly that reason, so that thoughts can constantly change direction.