[goralph]

I have an insatiable appetite for non-fiction - history, geography, politics, etc which I'm fairly certain can be traced back to a series of educational picture books I devoured as a child.

Each would survey some broad topic, for example Ancient Egypt. It would be full of detailed drawings/illustrations and accompanying text snippets. "What did the inside of a pyramid look like?", "How did the Ancient Egyptians use chariots?", and so on.

Mum would always buy me a new one every other week. The topics were diverse & broad, and so never got boring.

A bonus was when a subject I had read in these books happened to come up at school :-)

[pseudosaid]

reminds of the dk eyewitness books and stephen beisty books that captivated my youth