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Eyewitness Books (called Eyewitness Guides in the UK) is a series of educational nonfiction books. They were first published in Great Britain by Dorling Kindersley in 1988. The series now has over 160 titles on a variety of subjects, such as dinosaurs, Ancient Egypt, flags, chemistry, music, the solar system, film, and William Shakespeare. According to Dorling Kindersley, over 50 million copies have been sold in 36 languages. [1]

Contents

The books are often noted for their numerous photographs and detailed illustrations, which are always set against a white background. Describing the series in Booklist , Michael Cart wrote, "What DK did—with almost revolutionary panache—was essentially to reinvent nonfiction books by breaking up the solid pages of gray type that had previously been their hallmark, reducing the text to bite-size, nonlinear nuggets that were then surrounded by pictures that did more than adorn—they also conveyed information. Usually full color, they were so crisply reproduced they "seemed to leap off the page."" [2]

Some titles were later adapted into a television series, with theme music composed by Guy Michelmore.

List of books in the series

The series includes: [3] [4]

† originally published as part of the Eyewitness Science series.

‡ originally published as part of the Eyewitness Art series.

Other series

Dorling Kindersley also produced a number of other book series under the Eyewitness banner:

In additional to the book series DK also produced several tie-in ranges:

DK Multimedia produced a number CD-ROMs to accompany the series, titles included Eyewitness Children's Encyclopaedia, Eyewitness Encyclopaedia of Science, Eyewitness Encyclopaedia of Space and the Universe, Eyewitness History of the World, Eyewitness Photo Gallery, Eyewitness Virtual Reality, and Eyewitness World Atlas. [7]

Notes

  1. "DK Eyewitness Books- Universe". DK. Retrieved 10 February 2021.
  2. Michael Cart. "Eyewitness Books: Putting the graphic in lexigraphic". Booklist. October 15, 2002.
  3. "DK | Publishers of Award Winning Information".
  4. "DK Eyewitness".
  5. Only published in the UK.
  6. "Travel". DK. Retrieved 10 February 2021.
  7. "DK EyeWitness". OldGamesDownload.com. Retrieved 15 September 2022.

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