One hundred thousand Why is a set of popular science books for teenagers edited and published by Children's Publishing House in the early 1960s. The latest edition is the sixth edition, and the editor of the sixth edition is Han Qide. In the past 50 years, this set of books has been published in six editions, and the cumulative circulation has exceeded 1 100 million copies. It is a scientific enlightenment book for several generations of young people in New China, and has become the first brand of original popular science books in China.
It is scientific, knowledgeable, interesting and practical, which has played an active role in spreading knowledge and popularizing science, and influenced generations of teenagers to embark on the scientific road. Influenced by it, books with the title of "100,000 Why" emerge in an endless stream, becoming synonymous with children's popular science books.
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The title of "A Hundred Thousand Why" is borrowed from the popular science reading "A Hundred Thousand Why" by the Soviet scientific literature writer Ilya (real name Ilya Yakov Levich Marshak). Ilya also took a poem from 1907 by Joseph Rudyard Kipling, a British writer and Nobel Prize in Literature laureate: "Where are the 5,000 people? How about seven thousand? A hundred thousand why? " "Hundred thousand" is a virtual finger, which is used to describe many things.
The book brand "100,000 Why" was initiated by Shanghai Children's Publishing House, 196 1, and the article usually adopts "Why?" The title, each article is a popular science work of thousands of words. Since its birth more than 50 years ago, the brand has influenced countless readers on the road of seeking knowledge with its close editing form and strictly selected graphic content.
Since 196 1, 100,000 Why's have been regarded as book brands by the industry, and they have been developed and utilized on a large scale, and books with the same name have emerged one after another. However, "100,000 Why" published by Shanghai Children's Publishing House is still the first choice for readers because of its unique editing concept and strict quality requirements.