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It was apparently also published under the names Harmsworth's Children's Encyclopedia and Mee's Children's Encyclopedia. [5] The set was bought out by the Grolier Society in 1963, when it was announced that the encyclopaedia would be phased out by 1970. [6]
The Golden Book Encyclopedia is a set of children's encyclopedias published by Western Printing and Lithographing Company under the name Golden Press. [1] Advertised with circulars in newspapers, the encyclopedias were sent out in weekly or bi-weekly installments.
The Book of Knowledge was an encyclopedia aimed at juveniles first published in 1912, by the Grolier Society.. Originally largely a reprint of the British Children's Encyclopaedia with revisions related to the United States by Holland Thompson, over time the encyclopedia evolved into a new entity entirely.
The Childcraft series was originally created in 1934 by W. F. Quarrie & Company, then publishers of the World Book encyclopedia. The series' title was Childcraft – The How and Why Library. Childcraft was created as a sort of encyclopedia for young children. With simple texts and illustrations, the volumes were designed to make learning fun.
Our Wonder World was a children's encyclopedia published from the 1910s to the mid-1960s, under a variety of names. The original series was published in 10 volumes by the Chicago-based G. L. Schuman and Company. The series did not have named editors until at least 1926, when Howard Bristol Grose was credited as editor.
Children's Britannica. Britannica Junior was first published in 1934 as 12 volumes. It was expanded to 15 volumes in 1947, and renamed Britannica Junior Encyclopædia in 1963. [48] It was taken off the market after the 1984 printing. A British Children's Britannica edited by John Armitage was issued in London in 1960. [49]