Eyewitness Books

Eyewitness Books (or Eyewitness Guides) is a series of nonfiction books intended for young adults. They were first published in England by Dorling Kindersley in 1988. The series now has over seventy titles on a variety of subjects, such as dinosaurs, Ancient Egypt, flags, chemistry, music, the solar system and William Shakespeare. According to Dorling Kindersley, over 50 million copies have been sold in 36 languages.

The books are often noted for their numerous photographs and detailed illustrations, which are always set against a white background. Describing the series in Booklist, Michael Cart wrote, "What DK did—with almost revolutionary panache—was essentially to reinvent nonfiction books by breaking up the solid pages of gray type that had previously been their hallmark, reducing the text to bite-size, nonlinear nuggets that were then surrounded by pictures that did more than adorn—they also conveyed information. Usually full color, they were so crisply reproduced they seemed to leap off the page."^[1]

List of books in the series

1. Africa
2. American Revolution
3. Amphibian
4. Ancient Egypt
5. Ancient Egypt (project book)
6. Ancient Greece
7. Ancient Greece (project book)
8. Ancient Iraq
9. Ancient Rome (book and CD)
10. Ancient Rome (project book)
11. Arms and Armour
12. Astronomy
13. Atzec,Inca and Maya
14. Baseball
15. Basketball
16. Aztec
17. Battle
18. Bird
19. Bugs (project book)
20. Castle (book and CD)
21. Cat
22. China
23. Climate Change (book and CD)
24. Crystal & Gem
25. Dance
26. Dinosaur
27. Dinosaurs (project book)
28. Dog
29. Earth (project book)
30. Evolution
31. Flying Machine
32. Food
33. Football (book and CD)
34. Forensic Science
35. Great Musicians (book and CD)
36. Great Scientists
37. Horse
38. Human Body
39. Human Body (book and CD)
40. Human Body (project book)
41. Insect
42. Invention
43. Jungle
44. Jungle (book and CD)
45. Knight
46. Mammal
47. Medieval Life
48. Medieval Life (project book)
49. Modern China
50. Moon (book and CD)
51. Mummy
52. Mummy (book and CD)
53. Music
54. Mythology
55. Ocean
56. Oil
57. Plant
58. Pirate (book and CD)
59. Pond & River
60. Prehistoric Life (project book)
61. Pyramid
62. Religion
63. Rock & Mineral
64. Rocks & Minerals (project book)
65. Seashore
66. Shakespeare
67. Soldier
68. Space Exploration
69. Spy
70. Stars & Planets (project book)
71. Titanic
72. Train
73. Tudor
74. Victorians
75. Viking
76. Volcano
77. Vote (book and CD)
78. Water
79. Weather
80. Weather (project book)
81. Whale
82. World War I
83. World War II

Notes

External links

• [1] official website
• [2] also see Eyewitness Travel Guides

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