When I was little we bought some of the Time-Life coffee table books. We had all of the Life Nature Library series, with titles like "The Universe" and "The Sea" and "Reptiles." (We still have them all up in our attic.) We got just half a dozen of the Life Science Library series, with titles like "The Body" and "Machines," but I liked them too. Those books had a lot of photo essays and stuff with images that must have appeared in Time and Life magazines, which we subscribed to.
We also got the Newsweek series Milestones of History, which went from ancient times to the 1969 moon landing. I learned a lot from them, though I now notice that it had an inevitable European perspective. A couple of images of 17th-century massacres disturbed me, but maybe kids should be disturbed once in a while.
And we got the Rand McNally world atlas series with lots of maps showing not just a country's cities and towns, but its leading agriculture and industries and its geological profile. We got some of the series The World and Its Peoples too.
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