One interesting thing that The Wonderland of Knowledge has peppered throughout that I wasn’t expecting is the occasional fun game that you can play, or an illustrative model of some scientific principal that you can build.

For it’s entry on “cranes,” Volume Four of The Wonderland of Knowledge teaches you:

So, Wonderland, it’s a rainy Saturday afternoon, and mom and dad are too busy to play a round of Monopoly. How do you build a model crane?

Oh. I see.

So, you’re saying it’s impossible to build a model crane.