Which were your favorite?

I’m not sure if these are widely known, but I am a big fan of Stephen Biesty’s cross section books. I borrowed those from the library all the time. And bought them as an adult! They’re fun reads and very informative. Everyone who picks one up will end up smiling when they read them.

As a poor kid in latinamerica, without access to D&D manuals, those where my home mande RPG manuals. Everything hit with a d6 also because other kind of die where out of reach.

The anatomy book is actually how I learned how procreation worked.

I literally have the Gem Stones one near me on my bed right now. They really are the best.

90s intensifies

The Time & Space one is certainly mind blowing for my junior high school self.

I think I had the "Human Body" one and a couple others. Cool books.

Is there a lot of nostalgia for these? I have the castle one, but it just sort of appeared in my bookshelf one day.

Just got ran over by the nostalgia truck. Damn. That was cool feeling. I think the castle one was my favorite.

Popular Mechanics where they’d do something like this with a sub, harrier jet, bullet train, etc

AND. THEIR. VIDEOS!

nostalgia hit

Astronomy, I believe it was called, is my favorite.

Dinosaurs and castles. Honestly, anything with history was probably high on the list. I was already a big history dork from basically the time I could read.

I checked out the Castle book so much the librarian practically had it ready for me as I walked throttle door.

They had one about dogs that was fun. I think I had the arms and armor ones too

I loved looking at the illustrations in those and coming up with stories about them in my head

In middle school in the 80s I was really into comics and dungeons and dragons and at lunch I'd go to the library and read books like these about medieval weapons and old guns, it was like a fantasy pardise

Oh I think I had the explorers one but it was an Spanish version, although maybe it was a copycat or something can't remember the details.