World Book Encyclopedia was the first challenge to my faith in Santa Claus. Its matter-of-fact description of Saint Nick as “mythical” had my father performing mental gymnastics. Luckily, given ...

Several times this week, I’ve had occasion to pull down a volume of The World Book Encyclopedia from the set that lived on a bookshelf at my parents’ house and now lives with me. Unfortunately, in my ...

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As well-known and highly respected publishing entities like newspapers and reference books struggle to compete with free information available on the internet, publishers of these types of content are ...

Promotes comprehension, knowledge retention, and research skills necessary for learning success Includes index, map volume, fact-in-brief boxes, special features, and quiz-based activities Contains ...

This solid, low-priced offering is designed well for its target audience: kids. Although we wish there were more content (there are fewer than 25,000 articles), the mix of information, maps, time ...

Entries in a dictionary are “dry, functional, almost bureaucratically sapped of color or pop, like high-modernist architecture. Which trains you to think of the dictionary as a utility, not a quarry ...

In an age before Google, parents pinned hopes for their children’s future onto promises made on their doorsteps by encyclopedia salesmen. Denis Boyles, the author of a history of the Encyclopaedia ...

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--World Book, Inc., (www.worldbook.com) a leading publisher of nonfiction children's book series, core reference, and digital learning platforms, today announced the new ...