Children's Encyclopedia series from 1980's

This series was numbered and yearly, with editions in different colors and half of the front cover as a photo. They were hardcover, and similar to the children's Britannica series. Books in the series included one on the Human Body, one on Famous People, one on Myths and Legends. I can't remember many of the other books, but know that they started sometime in the 70's and had over a dozen in the series.

We had 'Childcraft' at that time. There was a core group of books, then annual volumes you could subscribe to. (We didn't, so I don't know what topics actually came out.)

Time-Life published numerous "mini-series" encyclopaedia for school children covering several topics as mentioned by "randomisms" e.g.The Human Body,Myths and Legends. A full list of series is available by accessing to the internet, type: "Time-Life series". I hope this is a kind of encyclopaedia you are looking for, and maybe you can get the books from the second-hand bookshops, ebay or online (Amazon)

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http://www.volumelists.com/series.php

The Joy of Knowledge series?

I found a site that lists many, many old partworks, and it might be worth browsing for titles on there (low on pics, though):

http://www.partworks.co.uk/

Charlie Brown's Cyclopedia? Though that one would probably have had other thnigs that stuck in your head.

>5 melannen: That was my guess too, but I'm pretty sure those came out monthly, not yearly. (My parents got me all of them except they missed #14 for some reason, which really rankles my completionist sensibilities.)

We got ours used as a full set, so I wouldn't know. :D

Actually, though, I checked the covers, and they didn't have photos on them, apparently. Which now has *me* wondering what I was remembering when I remembered a 'cyclopedia with those covers.