Mere Comments has up a wonderful story and tribute to the Grolier’s Book of Knowledge set. Not the New Book of Knowledge — the old set, before the arbiters of new decided that everything new was better than everything old. Start haunting flea markets and such for an old set for your children and grandchildren. Just think, they can escape new, and spend summer days making crossbows and fashioning little bits of furniture with mortises and tenons, discovering electric currents, or sewing doll clothes, or reading about the heroes of long ago: all those things children love to do. Or would discover they love to do, if we could pry the video games out of their hands.
Hooray! Finding them Online – download them before they disappear!
Volume 1
Volume 2
Volume 3
Volume 4
Volume 5
Volume 6
Volume 7
Volume 8
Volume 9
Volume 10
Volume 11
Volume 12
Volume 13
Volume 14 – still looking for this volume …
Volume 15
Volume 16
Volume 17
Volume 18
Volume 19
Volume 20
Volume 21
Volume 22
Volume 23 – still looking for this volume …
Volume 24
Parents’ and Teachers’ Guide to Reading Courses in the Book of Knowledge
And the original Children’s Encyclopaedia, published in Britain, out of which the Book of Knowledge grew.
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