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When I was growing up, we had the 1956 edition of World Book Encyclopedia. I loved reading the books and learning about so many different subjects. They were beautifully illustrated. I have happy memories of devouring the books for hours on end, especially during summer vacation from school.
I wish we had saved the books. When my dad was dying, decades ago, he sold his house with everything in it, and I'm sure the World Book set was still there. What a shame.
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My mother bought the complete Encyclopedia Brittanica when I was a toddler. We still have it. Many of those details (on countries) are good to know for how those countries once existed, if that makes any sense.
Yes; we had a set of world book that I would use for looking up things. Also brings back memories of "Highlights for Children" subscription I had. As a young child loved getting this magazine in the mail addressed to me.
Yes. Late 60s early 70s. hard to remember exactly.
What I do remember is getting a new book each month. Each book was a new letter. S and T each were split up into two books. By the time J and K came around, A and B were already outdated. Encyclopedias as complete sets were very expensive and so letter of the month were often used by families. I do not miss that encyclopedia. By the time we got all the volumes and the index, it was hardly used because of so many new things happening in the world. I am now too spoiled by the internet.
Yes. I loved to read them. Best of all, I had a set of wildlife encyclopedias. I've read every word in those many times.
I turned into a reader, but I don't think the encyclopedias had anything to do with it, because my sister has the same access to the encyclopedias and I'm not entirely convinced she can even read. She is just not interested.
Yes, although I'd forgotten all about it until I saw this post. It was an 8 volume set of The Book of Knowledge, which my parents must have bought in the early 1950s. I used to enjoy dipping into them and reading things at random.
Yes. My parents owned the entire set and I remember taking one at a time and flipping through it, stopping and reading what I was interested in and continuing on, I did that several times a year. I was fascinated with information and is probably why I am full of information that my wife and kids say is pointless lol.
Yes, we had the World Book encyclopedias, I believe, and there was roughly a volume per alphabet letter. They were bound in deep red leather or something like leather, with gold lettering.
My favorites were the overlays (in clear plastic) of the body systems of a) a frog and b) a human. Also the drawings of clothing over the centuries around the world! I used to sit and thumb through those for hours, poring over them. I also really liked the sections on Egyptology and mummies, and on planets (I think it had some sort of overlay as well). Oh and on different breeds of dogs and their "dog jobs."
Yes, we had the World Book encyclopedias, I believe, and there was roughly a volume per alphabet letter. They were bound in deep red leather or something like leather, with gold lettering.
My favorites were the overlays (in clear plastic) of the body systems of a) a frog and b) a human. Also the drawings of clothing over the centuries around the world! I used to sit and thumb through those for hours, poring over them. I also really liked the sections on Egyptology and mummies, and on planets (I think it had some sort of overlay as well). Oh and on different breeds of dogs and their "dog jobs."
We had the red ones too! I loved those books. Could hardly wait for the yearbook. Those came in white though.
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