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It was widely sold. It was used by schools and for teacher training. It gives insight into the social values of the society that created it. As the initial run ended, it was reissued as the monthly New Children's Encyclopædia. The title changed, becoming Children's Encyclopædia Magazine, Children's Magazine and, finally, My Magazine in 1914.
The Northamptonshire volume in The King's England series. Arthur Henry Mee (21 July 1875 – 27 May 1943) was an English writer, journalist and educator. He is best known for The Harmsworth Self-Educator, The Children's Encyclopædia, The Children's Newspaper, and The King's England.
Encyclopedia is a television series created by the HBO Network and the for-profit branch of the Children's Television Workshop (CTW) (now known as Sesame Workshop), Distinguished Productions, Inc. (DPI) (which has since been folded into Sesame Workshop). The series premiered on the HBO network in 1988.
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 Children's Illustrated Encyclopedia is an encyclopedia marketed for use by children ages 7-17. [1] The single-volume work emphasizes visuals like illustrations , photographs , maps , and timelines over breadth of coverage, and entries are supplemented by an official website and URLs to third party resources.
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.
In the last volumes of Arthur Mee's (ca 1953) Children's Encyclopedia and the World Book Encyclopedia are indexes to the full sets of encyclopedias. These entries contain the key ideas to encourage young minds. The content of Mee's Encyclopedia is very out of date, as is his classification of knowledge.
The Children's Encyclopedia – by Arthur Mee, published 1908–64 in the UK and in the US starting in 1910 as Grolier's The Book of Knowledge; Children's Illustrated Encyclopedia – published by Dorling Kindersley; Collier's Encyclopedia; Columbia Encyclopedia – one-volume encyclopedia from Columbia University Press last published in 2000