Just Because

McConaughey’s first children’s book pairs simple, rhyming couplets with Renee Kurilla’s warm illustrations to teach young readers that people and life hold opposites at once, that you can be brave and scared, strong and gentle, right and wrong. Aimed at the picture-book age but pitched at the parents reading aloud too, it distills the same both-and philosophy of his memoir into a gentle lesson about accepting complexity in yourself and others.