About the Book: The First of Everything
Sam Jam sat in a school library and challenged the school community to ask him
about the origin of anything at all—and pledged to use library resources to
answer within 60 minutes. Children and adults delivered clever, funny,
unexpected questions: Who owned the first pet dog? Who invented toilets? What
was the first song? Were the first newspapers really made of rock? And who was
the first human, anyway? Seeking answers, he and his young assistants discovered
remarkable true tales: The tamer of wolves The tape measure that reached the
moon The first instant message The man who took