Arcturus Children's Reference Library Books in Order
Arcturus Children's Reference Library contains 17 books, published between 2017 and 2022. The first book is Children's Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs (2017) and the newest is Children's Encyclopedia of Predators (2022). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 17
- Published
- 2017–2022
- Pages on record
- 1,408 in 11 of 17 books
- Reading time
- 23–35 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 1,408 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 11 of 17 titles with a page count on record.
Arcturus Children's Reference Library is a set of illustrated children's encyclopedias, 17 volumes published between 2017 and 2022. Each volume covers one subject: dinosaurs, space, animals, science, the human body, planet earth, rocks and fossils, technology, birds and ocean life among them. Claudia Martin is credited on 5 volumes, Clare Hibbert on 3, Giles Sparrow and Alex Woolf on 2 each, with Dr Michael Leach, Dr Meriel Lland, Chris Jarvis and Thomas Canavan also named. Volumes run to about 128 pages.
How many Arcturus Children's Reference Library books are there?
Arcturus Children's Reference Library has 17 books, released between 2017 and 2022.
Arcturus Children's Reference Library Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 17 Arcturus Children's Reference Library books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.
- 1Children's Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs2017 · confirmed 2/42017–2/4
- 2Children's Encyclopedia of Space2017 · 128 pages · confirmed 2/420171282/4
- 3Children's Encyclopedia of Animals: Take a Walk on the Wild Side!2018 · 128 pages · confirmed 2/420181282/4
- 4Children's Encyclopedia of Science2018 · confirmed 2/42018–2/4
- 5Children's Human Body Encyclopedia2019 · 128 pages · confirmed 2/420191282/4
- 6Children's Planet Earth Encyclopedia2019 · 128 pages · confirmed 2/420191282/4
- 7Children's Encyclopedia of Rocks and Fossils2019 · 128 pages · confirmed 2/420191282/4
- 8Children’s Encyclopedia of Technology2019 · 128 pages · confirmed 2/420191282/4
- 9Children's Encyclopedia of Birds2020 · 128 pages · confirmed 2/420201282/4
- 10Children's Encyclopedia of Ocean Life2020 · 128 pages · confirmed 2/420201282/4
- 11Children's Encyclopedia of Science Experiments2020 · 128 pages · confirmed 2/420201282/4
- 12Children's World Atlas2021 · confirmed 2/42021–2/4
- 13Children's Encyclopedia of Math / Children's Encyclopedia of Maths2021 · 128 pages · confirmed 2/420211282/4
- 14Children's Encyclopedia of Knights and Castles2021 · 128 pages · confirmed 2/420211282/4
- 15Children's Encyclopedia of Unexplained Mysteries2021 · confirmed 2/42021–2/4
- 16Children's Encyclopedia of Flags2022 · confirmed 2/42022–2/4
- 17Children's Encyclopedia of Predators2022 · confirmed 2/42022–2/4
Where to start with Arcturus Children's Reference Library
Start with Children's Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs (2017), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Arcturus Children's Reference Library book?
Children's Encyclopedia of Predators (2022) is the newest Arcturus Children's Reference Library book released so far.
Is there a new Arcturus Children's Reference Library book coming?
No next Arcturus Children's Reference Library book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Arcturus Children's Reference Library at a glance
- Paused
- No new Arcturus Children's Reference Library title has appeared for 4 years. The last was published in 2022.
- Release pace
- Arcturus Children's Reference Library books have appeared more than one a year on average.
- Length
- 1,408 pages across the 11 of 17 books with a recorded length, a median of 128 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Arcturus Children's Reference Library books, 9 of 17, were published in the 2020s.
- Attribution
- Of the 17 titles, 5 are credited to Claudia Martin, 3 to Clare Hibbert, 2 to Giles Sparrow and 2 to Alex Woolf. A further 7 writers are credited.
What the Arcturus Children's Reference Library books are about
4 of the 17 Arcturus Children's Reference Library books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: children's encyclopedias and dictionaries is tagged on 2 of 4. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Children's encyclopedias and dictionaries 2 of 4 books
- Animals 1 of 4 books
- Animals, juvenile literature 1 of 4 books
- Cosmology, juvenile literature 1 of 4 books
- Dinosaurs 1 of 4 books
- Dinosaurs, juvenile literature 1 of 4 books
- Outer space 1 of 4 books
- Outer space, juvenile literature 1 of 4 books
- Science 1 of 4 books
- Science, juvenile literature 1 of 4 books
- Universe 1 of 4 books