Side dose of those Record books
Used to have a big green book called the Dictionary of Animals.
My favourite was the wobbegong.
I kind of wanted to be an astronaut, but by the time I grew up we weren’t really doing that any more and tbh it looks kind of dangerous. I also fart a lot, so I don’t think I’d be very popular on the ISS.
You need something like this to crack them open:
Well the comment section led me down an eBay rabbit hole and now I’ve got like 10 books coming.
These were my jam when I was a kid
My school library pulled these books from the shelves because every time it was “library time” kids would always rush to pick these books first, and they said “all you do is look at the pictures” which is bad apparently.
Whoever made that decision deserves a punch in the face and should be demoted from adulthood, back to school.
Fuck that reasoning. That’s what got me into the insects those creepy looking ones. How else are you supposed to describe a praying mantis, like it’s 1350 and carved into stone?
My school library had a bunch of Garfield and Calvin and Hobbes comics and some of those how to draw marvel style books and Shel Silverstein poetry books with pictures that got me interested in reading everything else
yes!
I remember the arms and armor one! I got it for my best friend one Channukah… like 20 years ago
I didn’t have any of those but I DID have a copy of The Way Things Work by David Macaulay, which is an exploration of mechanical concepts demonstrated with adorable illustrations of mammoths. Kinda similar presentation, according to my search.
I should get a new (old) copy.
Wow, memory unlocked. Childhood friends had that book, very epic.
The computer mouse image was the greatest. It’s very outdated nowadays, by so fantastic.
