The How and Why Wonder Books
Wonderful thing, the internet. Everything is slowly being catalogued and placed online by devoted collectors. When I was a child I owned several books in the How and Why Wonder Books series - devoted mainly to topics in the natural sciences. A person called Rob Storey is collecting these and has put all the book covers online. The one I remember best was the dystopic and frightening The Spoilt Earth, a post-apocalyptic vision of an environmentally degraded world. (Here is another, smaller collection of covers) Now I’ve just got to wait for someone to scan the contents and put those online too. You can’t buy good quality science books for children any more. Instead you get tame nonsense like this, nothing dangerous because of course the publishers might get sued.
June 28th, 2008 at 12:43 pm
R-sama
It’s totally unrelated to the article but how are you surviving in the house with workmen? まだ かびくさい？
It was such a pity you could come on Thursday evening - we had a super great time! Mama-san is so funky and funny. I am so glad to finally have met N-sama. Hope to keep in touch and see you sooooon.
June 28th, 2008 at 12:44 pm
PS
Oops, I missed ‘not’ after ‘could’
June 28th, 2008 at 1:16 pm
Hi LE:
Yes, it’s very stressful at the moment.
I was going to post some photographs, but Bluetooth is broken on my laptop at the moment so I can’t copy the photos from my keitai. But I will do later …
Rich.
June 28th, 2008 at 1:16 pm
Oh and by the way, apparently they will finish the bathroom at least on Monday … So still more days to go.