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Did many of you even have much nonfiction?

When someone grows nostalgic about childhood books, they generally talk about fiction, but my fiction reading nearly all came from the library and had to go back, so I don’t remember it as clearly as the nonfiction in the bookcase that I’d flip through and look at the pictures and read some here and there.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Would "Carry On. Mr Bowditch" count?

As an entertaining biography written for kids, it's not a reference book, but it's not purely fiction, either.

Closer to reference would be another favourite, "The Ashley Book of Knots, which I devoured.