Golden Guide
The Golden Guides, originally Golden Nature Guides, are a series of pocket-sized books that were created by Western Publishing and published under their "Golden Press" line, primarily a children's book imprint, beginning in 1949. Intended for primary and secondary school level readers, the series began as field guides with such titles as Birds (1949), Flowers (1950), and Mammals (1955), and then expanded to a wider range of subjects, not intended as identification guides. These titles included Geology, Photography and Heart. Edited by Herbert S. Zim and Vera Webster, the books were written by experts in their field and illustrated in a simple straightforward style.
Zim would also later launch a related series called the Golden Field Guide.
An updated series was relaunched in 2001 as "Golden Guides by St. Martin's Press".
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