Looking for a good browsing book with which to pass a short amount of time? Are you a trivia fan? Do science and history books appeal to you? Go to the children's section of the library and peruse the Eyewitness Books! Don't let your chronological age deter you. Eyewitness Books have appeal whether you're 9 or 99.

There are likely dozens of Eyewitness Books at the branch library convenient to you. At the moment I type this, I have six Eyewitness Books on my lap: Vote, Weather, Everest, Invention, Ancient China and Castle. Every Eyewitness Book has a logical overall arrangement. For example, the Invention book starts off with Stone Age axes and ends with silicon chips. Along the way, it touches on wheels, timekeeping devices, navigation, surveying, printing, internal combustion engines, television, radio and flight, to name a few categories.

But the key attraction of Eyewitness Books, their trademark, is the plethora of illustrations large and small, artistic and photographic, scattered on every page. A short description accompanies each illustration. It's sort of like a museum display-case in a book.

Enjoy your browse! Impress your friends! Who knows when you'll need the exact bit of information gleaned from an Eyewitness Book for a trivia game?!