Funk & Wagnalls

When I was probably five or so, you could get a new volume in this series at the grocery store (like Price Chopper or something?) for a couple bucks with some amount of groceries, maybe every month or so. (Mom, feel free to chime in with the details. I was pretty vague on the whole thing at the time: I was more or less under the impression that the grocery store was specifically for handing these out to me.) I got almost the whole 22ish-volume set; the one or two volumes I was missing caused me untold pain and anxiety. I looooooooooved them. This encyclopedia is why I grew up obsessed with things like pangolins.



Which by the way if you were wondering what to get me for Christmas, that's what I want.… (mere)