How and Why Wonder Books were a series of illustrated books published in the 1960s and 1970s that were designed to teach science concepts to children and young teenagers. The series began in 1960, and was edited by Dr. Paul E. Blackwood of the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare. The series was published by Wonder Books, Inc., a division of Grosset & Dunlap. There were dozens of books in the series and all of them started with the title The How and Why Wonder Book of...

The books were numbered consecutively in series starting at 5001.

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