Stay up to speed on all we have to offerplus activities, crafts, and blogs for parents and educators in our newsletter. The digital maine library provides every resident of maine with access to online resources that include a collection of full text articles and abstracts from magazines, newspapers, journals and reference. This will be the edition printed that year with minor revisions. Auto suggestions are available once you type at least 3 letters. Sep 15, 2011 discovery encyclopedia is an encyclopedia for kids that has been redesigned and expanded edition from world book s popular student discovery encyclopedia. Open library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published. Encyclopedia britannica kids around the world 30 button sound book pi kids by claire winslow and editors of phoenix international publications sep 3, 2019 5. Teachers will find the educator tools invaluable, while students will get easy access to factual information from agespecific databases like world book student and national geographic kids. Book news wrote about a previous edition of this classic reference. According to the company, its mission is to enhance learning and reading for children around the world by developing trustworthy, engaging content to create products that will engage children of all ages at home, on the go, in the classroom or in libraries worldwide. World book s mission is to enhance and support learning and reading for children and families around the world. Quarries contribution was to establish an editorial board to align the entries with.
It contains thousands of tips and references in an easyto use alphabetical encyclopedia. Set of 1976 the world book encyclopedia with bicentennial. The world book encyclopedia, 1989 by book, incorporated. The world book was first published in 1917 and revised annually from 1925.
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