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...best are The World Book En cyclopedia, which has dominated the grade-school market in recent years, Compton's Pictured Encyclopedia and Britannica Junior Encyclopaedia. Those three now face strong competition from the New Book of Knowledge, which Grolier, Inc., has just completed after spending nine years and $7,000,000. It retains only the name of Grolier's famed earlier set, which was designed more for broad-subject browsing than for detailed, focused information...
Never have so many parents trembled at the salesman's glib pitch that knowledge is the key to happiness and that their children will not even find the door without an encyclopedia. Sales of encyclopedias written for school kids have at least tripled in the past ten years. Educators agree that an encyclopedia can aid learning, but only if it has something significant to say in clear words and pictures that appeal to a child - and only a few sets really do that...
According to the official Soviet Encyclopedia, Moses was a myth and the Bible is simply a collection of unedifying tall stories. Nonetheless, God's word has all of a sudden become a bestseller in Russia. Last month, Moscow's Publishing House for Political Literature brought out a new book called Biblical Stories containing Lamblike retellings of Old Testament passages, illustrations in color drawn from classical Western art, and sardonic commentaries by two atheist editors. Within a few hours, the entire first edition of 100,000 copies was completely sold...
...Tron, then read the questions and check the child's answers. Example: one picture shows three geometric shapes, with the underline: "Which is the triangle?" The set, now used in some Head Start programs, will be sold door-to-door this fall along with Compton's Encyclopedia. Though overpriced, First Adventures can help parents explain to the child, in terms that he can understand, some ideas that he should have by the time he starts school...
...later moved to the East where he assisted in the revision of Mackey's Encyclopedia of Free masonry. He also published Masonle books and said real estate...