All About Books are non-fiction science books, published by Random House in the 50's and 60's (several titles were also reprinted by E. M. Hale). While the material is sometimes dated, these connect great authors with the material, making it very understandable to kids (much like the series from the same era, Landmark Books).
There are 58 total titles in the series, covering a variety of topics like space and earth, the physical and natural sciences, physiology and medicine, great discoveries—and more random topics like music and political science. They vary in usefulness and literary quality. Most are excellent, although a few are not as good as the others.
Like the Landmark books, these are geared towards the 4th-6th grade range for students. We find some are suitable for kids as young as 3rd and others for students up to grade 8.
- All About Dinosaurs by Roy Chapman Andrews
- All About Radio and Television by Jack Gould
- All About the Sea by Ferdinand C. Lane
- All About Volcanoes and Earthquakes by Frederick H. Pough
- All About the Weather by Ivan R. Tannehill
- All About the Insect World by Ferdinand C. Lane
- All About the Stars by Anne Terry White
- All About Whales by Roy Chapman Andrews
- All About the Wonders of Chemistry by Ira M. Freeman
- All About the Atom by Ira M. Freeman
- All About Birds by Robert S. Lemmon
- All About Our Changing Rocks / All About Rocks and Minerals by Anne Terry White
(#12 was published under two different titles)
- All About Rockets and Jets by Fletcher Pratt
- All About the Flowering World by Ferdinand C. Lane
- All About Moths and Butterflies by Robert S. Lemmon
- All About Snakes by Bessie M. Hecht
- All About Strange Beasts of the Past by Roy Chapman Andrews
- All About Famous Inventors and Their Inventions by Fletcher Pratt
- All About Strange Beasts of the Present by Robert S. Lemmon
- All About the Arctic and Antarctic by Armstrong Sperry
- All About the Desert by Sam & Beryl Epstein
- All About Great Rivers of the World by Anne Terry White
- All About Electricity by Ira M. Freeman
- All About Famous Scientific Expeditions by Raymond Holden
- All About Animals and their Young by Robert M. McClung
- All About Monkeys by Robert S. Lemmon
- All About the Human Body by Bernard Glemser
- All About Satellites and Space Ships by David Dietz
- All About the Jungle by Armstrong Sperry
- All About Prehistoric Cave Men by Sam and Beryl Epstein
- All About the Ice Age by Patricia Lauber
- All About Archaeology by Anne Terry White
- All About the Planets by Patricia Lauber
- All About Fish by Carl Burger
- All About Undersea Exploration by Ruth Brindze
- All About Great Medical Discoveries by David Dietz
- All About Sound and Ultrasonics by Ira Freeman
- All About the US Navy by Edmund L. Castillo
- All About Symphony Orchestra and What it Plays by Dorothy Berliner Commins
- All About Sailing the Seven Seas by Ruth Brindze
- All About Mountains and Mountaineering by Anne Terry White
- All About Dogs by Carl Burger
- All About Horses by Marguerite Henry
- All About Our Fifty States by Margaret Ronan
- All About Engines and Power by Sam and Beryl Epstein
- All About the Planet Earth by Patricia Lauber
- All About the Human Mind by Robert M. Goldenson
- All About Heredity by Judith Randal
- All About Maps and Mapmaking by Susan March
- All About Rockets and Space Flight by Harold Goodwin
- All About Aviation by Robert Loomis
- All About Biology by Bernard Glemser
- All About Fire by Raymond Holden
- All About Courts of Law by Ruth Brindze
- All About the Universe by David Dietz
- All About Elephants by Carl Burger
- All About Light and Radiation by Ira Freeman
- All About Cats by Carl Burger
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