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Strangely, though I hated school as an experience, I loved learning and reading and I loved my textbooks during elementary school as much as the library books I got to pick on my own. I could be found copying the art from readers, singing the tunes from music books at home and looking for everything else the author ever wrote in enrichment study stories. I didn’t write *in* my books and I rarely got those awesome Lisa Frank book covers but I kept my stuff clean and ready to turn over to the next kid and looked back with a little sadness when those volumes left my bookbag for the bag of some paste-eater that might draw on the outside of the pages and turn down the corners- gasp! However, my parents did see that in the days before Nickelodeon’s magazine, there was a market for kiddie mags just like the ‘rents Cosmo and Smithsonian and I lucked out pretty well in that department. My usual groan was that I went through the whole mag in a day and WTH was I supposed to read until next month??

 

Popular Nonfiction 80s publications

Zoobooks

Time Life Book sets

National Geographic Kids magazine

Junior Great Books Series

Highlights Magazine for Children

Making Music Your Own Series

Weekly Reader Just Ask series

1st Thousand Words language series

Ann Morris photo picture book series 

A World of Things to Do -National Gepgraphic 

All Kinds of Feet

Weird and Wonderful Science Facts

Fabulous Facts about the 50 States

Amazing True Stories

Strange Mysteries 

Busy Beavers (National Geographic)

Cornerstones of Freedom series

Amazing Facts series

The World and Its Wonders

How Much is  a Million?

Charlioe Brown’s ‘Cyclopedia

Yearling Biographies series

Disney’s Wonderful World of Knowledge