HOW AND WHY DOWN THE CAR BOOT

 Today's local Sunday car boot threw up a few goodies. It was the last very local one of the season. We will have to go further afield from now on.

Anyway we picked up a 2009 At-At for Junior, an original Han Solo from 1983, a 1975 Super Kings pick-up and a bunch of James Herbert creepy paperbacks for winter reading. The old grasses field guide goes in the loo library.

This stack of old lovely condition How and Why softback books were a steal. I remember some of them like Primitive Man as if it were yesterday.

Did you have any readers?

HOW AND WHY?

 

How I loved these books and the How and Why Book of Prehistoric Mammals was a favourite. Just look at that cover to get a blast from the sabre-toothed past!

Did you have this book?

TIMMY TOAD'S TAR PIT

Woodsy, after your recent blog on the How and Why Wonder book of Dinosaurs, I managed to nab these 3 off ebay for just over £6 inc p+p. Bargain!

Comparing the Dinosaur UK softback and US hardback versions , the US one (right) is on better quality paper but suffers overcropping of the rhs of the page. Poor Dimetrodon has lost his head!

Whilst I don't remember owning the Mammals book, all the pics look very familiar-maybe I read it at school or had it as a library book. Standing out is the sabretooth on the back of a mammoth in a tar pit!!!! Is this the image you remember?

Timmy Toad