This wonderful volume arrived in the mail about two weeks ago and has been sat on the family room coffee table ever since daring me to pick it up and start reading.
The thing is I know that once I open it, I will be drawn back to the sixties when I was a wee young thing and looked forward with anticipation to the arrival of Look & Learn through the mailbox every Saturday morning. Forget Saturday morning cartoons, once L&L arrived I was lost for a good few hours.
It was this magazine’s mix (it was never referred to as a "comic") of entertaining articles and stunning art that inspired both a love of the comics medium and a thirst for knowledge that has never left me. It was in the pages of Look & Learn that the trivia monster was born.
Here’s a short extract from Lew Stringer’s the downthetubes blog on this stunning collection.
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| The Bumper Book of Look and Learn is published by Century at £18.99 r.r.p, and living up to its self-proclaimed "bumper" status is a large format 256 page hardback on top quality stock, bigger and better than any Look and Learn Annual of the past. The reproduction of the old pages is first rate, with sharp text and rich, colourful artwork. Clearly a lot of care and attention has gone into the production of this volume.
One of the notable things about The Bumper Book of Look and Learn is that the historical articles have all been paginated chronologically. In the original magazine, there was no such order to the features; an item on the moon landing on one spread, an article on the battle of Agincourt on the next, followed by a feature on the Industrial Revolution, for example. In collating the book however, (editor) Stephen Pickles has cleverly put all the articles into a historical order, from the animals of the Ice Age to an item on space probes. |