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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.
The first edition of World Book (1917) contained eight volumes. New editions have since appeared every year except 1920, 1924, and 1932, with major revisions in 1929 (13 volumes), 1947 (19 volumes), 1960 (20 volumes), 1971 (22 volumes), and 1988 (new typeface and page design, and some 10,000 new editorial features). [12]
Probert Encyclopaedia – online topical encyclopedia consisting of almost 100,000 short entries, published by Mathew Probert and based in the United Kingdom; World Book Encyclopedia – designed for family use; the world's best selling print encyclopedia
Columnist David Murdock still has his family's prized 1965 edition of the World Book Encyclopedia, and recalls pleasant hours reading it.
Around 1976, World Book Encyclopedia published a "Wheel of Learning" accessory with encyclopedia sets, which contained a packet of disk-shaped cards which were placed in a mechanical computer capable of showing a question in a window, and if my memory serves correctly, scoring the series of multiple choice questions shown through that window. I ...
The World Book Dictionary is a two-volume English dictionary published as a supplement to the World Book Encyclopedia.It was originally published in 1963 by Field Enterprises under the editorship of Clarence Barnhart, who wrote definitions for the Thorndike-Barnhart graded dictionary series for children, based on the educational works of Edward Thorndike whom Clarence Barnhart had known and ...