How and Why Wonder Books were a series of illustrated American books published in the 1960s and 1970s that was designed to teach science and history to children and young teenagers. The series began in 1960, and was edited under the supervision of Dr. Paul E. Blackwood of the Office of Education at the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare. The series was published by Wonder Books, Inc., a division of Grosset & Dunlap.
There were 74 unique titles in the series, each one starting with the phrase The How and Why Wonder Book of… as a key component of the book's name. All 74 volumes were published in a softcover format, with pages measuring 8½ × 11 inches (21.6 × 27.9 cm) in size. A number of the titles were also produced in hardcover versions, too; these being referred to as either the "Trade Editions" or the "Library Editions." The softcover books were numbered consecutively in series starting at 5001 (with the only exception being the final book in the series entitled Fossils). The hardcover versions were numbered differently from the softcover issues.
Each How and Why Wonder Book uniformly contained a total of 48 pages, with the only exception being The Environment and You, which contained 64 pages.
- …5001 Dinosaurs
- …5002 Weather
- …5003 Electricity
- …5004 Rocks and Minerals
- …5005 Rockets and Missiles
- …5006 Stars
- …5007 Insects
- …5008 Reptiles and Amphibians
- …5009 Birds
- …5010 Our Earth
- …5011 Beginning Science
- …5012 Machines
- …5013 The Human Body
- …5014 Sea Shells
- …5015 Atomic Energy
- …5016 The Microscope
- …5017 The Civil War
- …5018 Mathematics
- …5019 Flight
- …5020 Ballet
- …5021 Chemistry
- …5022 Horses
- …5023 Explorations and Discoveries
- …5024 Primitive Man
- …5025 North America
- …5026 Planets and Interplanetary Travel
- …5027 Wild Animals
- …5028 Sound
- …5029 Lost Cities
- …5030 Ants and Bees
- …5031 Wild Flowers
- …5032 Dogs
- …5033 Prehistoric Mammals
- …5034 Science Experiments
- …5035 World War II
- …5036 Florence Nightingale
- …5037 Butterflies and Moths
- …5038 Fish
- …5039 Robots and Electronic Brains
- …5040 Light and Color
- …5041 Winning of the West
- …5042 The American Revolution
- …5043 Caves to Skyscrapers
- …5044 Ships
- …5045 Time
- …5046 Magnets and Magnetism
- …5047 Guns
- …5048 the Moon
- …5049 Famous Scientists
- …5050 The Old Testament
- …5051 Building
- …5052 Railroads
- …5053 Trees
- …5054 Oceanography
- …5055 North American Indians
- …5056 Mushrooms, Ferns and Mosses
- …5057 The Polar Regions
- …5058 Coins and Currency
- …5059 Basic Inventions
- …5060 The First World War
- …5061 Electronics
- …5062 Deserts
- …5063 Air and Water
- …5064 Stars
- …5065 Airplanes and the Story of Flight
- …5066 Fish
- …5067 Boats and Ships
- …5068 The Moon
- …5069 Trains and Railroads
- …5070 Ecology
- …5071 The Environment and You
- …5072 Extinct Animals
- …5073 Snakes
- …5076 Fossils
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