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[dreamer_easy]

18 particularly ridiculous prog-rock album covers. I think Tarkus is cute. Someone should make a stuffed toy version.

How and Why Wonder Books: source of all knowledge and wisdom.

Via peteyoung: Teddy bears in space. For real! More pix!

Dr. Lazer Rage, in which Christopher Eccleston is quite brilliant.

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[antikythera.livejournal.com]

I remember those How & Why books! My mother had a bunch from when she was a kid.

...The Old Testament, huh? One of these things is not like the others...

[iblis-kukl.livejournal.com]

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

SCANS

[iblis-kukl.livejournal.com]

How and Why Wonder Books

[hermaj.livejournal.com]

I had forgotten about them!! We had quite a few didn't we? Can you remember which ones we had?

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[kateorman.livejournal.com]

Dinosaurs, Beginning Science, Coins and Currency, Ecology, the Human Body, Insects, Mathematics... Oceanography and Basic Inventions look familiar, too.

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[stephen-dedman.livejournal.com]

'Dinosaurs' was, IIRC, the first How & Why I owned; 'Ecology' the last I bought or was given (by that time, the American focus of their biology books was beginning to irritate me, making me think there should be an Australian equivalent). I also remember owning 'The Moon' (10th birthday present, a few weeks before Apollo 11), 'Stars', 'Planets and Interplanetary Travel', 'Prehistoric Mammals', 'Early Man', 'Reptiles and Amphibians', 'Birds', 'Rocks and Minerals', 'Beginning Science', and I know my sister owned the 'Ballet' book. 'Time', 'Weather', 'Coins and Currency', 'Insects', 'Oceanography' and a few others we either owned, or borrowed from libraries.

Where are they now? Well, my mother was a teacher at a small private school, so they tended to end up in her school library. But I think they deserve some of the credit and/or blame for making me the geek I am today.

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

Agreed with you on Tarkus. It also looks like it could be an entrant on Robot Wars, combining the cute with the aggressive. Bit lacking in the SRIMEC department on the other hand.

LOL at the "macho men ogling a firm male ass".

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

I like to think that's Kenny Everett as Angry of Mayfair on the other side of the brain.

[iblis-kukl.livejournal.com]

[jondennis.livejournal.com]

I have three of those

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

So do I! (Same three? Tarkus, Tormato, Hemispheres.)

[jondennis.livejournal.com]

One in common. I have In the Court of the Crimson King, Hemispheres, and De-Loused in the Comatorium.

[drhoz.livejournal.com]

I've still got my How & Why books :D

as far as Australian equivalents go, the Australia's XXXX In Colour series published by Reed weren't bad at all.

[outsdr.livejournal.com]

How and Why Wonder Books: source of all knowledge and wisdom.

My mother bought a complete early-edition set of the Books of Knowledge at an auction. I think I read all of them when I was 10-12; it's where I learned that fairy tales were very, very good before Disney tainted them, amongst other amazing things.

She's saving them for me until I have a place to put them. Gorgeous, wonderful books.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Knowledge