Pick Me Up (book)

Pick Me Up is an encyclopedic non-fiction book primarily intended for children. As the cover states, it is a collection of "Stuff you need to know". Pick Me Up is arranged into eight categories. These are: Science, Technology and Space; Society, Places and Beliefs; History; The Natural World; People Who Made the World; Arts, Entertainment and Media; You and Your Body; and Planet Earth. Each category has 10–40 separate articles. Pick Me Up was created by David Roberts and Jeremy Leslie. The articles within Pick Me Up were written by more than 20 different writers.

Pick Me Up
AuthorDavid Roberts, Jeremy Leslie
IllustratorIzabella Bielawska, John Critchley, Corrina Drossel, James Grubb, Katharina Rocksien, Emmi Salonen
Cover artisteBoy
CountryUnited Kingdom, United States
LanguageEnglish
SubjectGeneral knowledge
GenreEncyclopedia
PublisherDorling Kindersley
Publication date
25 September 2006
Media typeBook
Pages352
ISBN978-0-7566-2159-9
Followed byDo Not Open 

Design

Pick Me Up is designed unconventionally, using striking headlines to articles to grab attention. For example, "Was Beethoven a punk?". It then discusses why some people would think of him as a punk. It will also have several articles per page all related to one topic but not each other. It also uses different approaches to a topic. For example, instead of writing several articles about different animals, Pick Me Up discusses what animal is man's best friend.

gollark: Ultimately someone is paying for these jobs, but there's frequently enough indirection that it becomes nearly-meaningless.
gollark: They mostly at least vaguely contribute to stuff in some way, or they wouldn't exist.
gollark: Philosophy doesn't seem to be "ultimate universal truths" as much as "sometimes fun, but essentially fiddling with semantics".
gollark: In physics your theory might get obsoleted by another one later, in engineering and whatever there are endless tradeoffs, but in maths you can confidently say (if you prove it and a lot of people check it I guess) that thing Y follows from axioms X.
gollark: Maths is pretty much the *one* subject where you can go around talking about ultimate universal truths.

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