Reddit reviews Earthsearch

It was in Earthsearch, from Klutz. I had the same book. :)

https://www.amazon.com/Earthsearch-John-Cassidy/dp/1878257749

This book

This is exactly what I was going to guess.

Or perhaps Earthsearch?

Earthsearch

http://www.amazon.com/Earthsearch-John-Cassidy/dp/1878257749

I think you're looking for Earthsearch or perhaps for Explorabook by the same author/publisher. They were both very popular in the '90s, and they're still great! I have them in my classroom for my students.

Earthsearch

I had a copy of this as a kid, and loved it. It has all of these cool activities inside, with information about the world. The cover is recycled aluminum, and the book talks about all of the things it might have been previously. The book also contains a sheet of toilet paper, a little bag of rice, and all sorts of other cool things.

A few months ago, I found a copy sitting on a shelf at a friend's house, and as I was skimming through it I realized that most of the things I know about earth science, I learned from this book. It's astounding, really.

Being born in America was very lucky.
When I was a kid I had a a little encyclopedia, I think it was one of those Klutz books, that had a plastic bag of rice inserted in it. The rice was divided into two sections, one very small (1" x 3", maybe) and another about twice the height. The next page had a wheel you could spin and a large slice of th wheel said something like, "You've been born in a poor country. Each day you eat the equivalent of the rice in the small section." and another slice of the wheel said the same about the second section, and a third slice said you got both sections (still hardly anything). A very thin sliver of the wheel said something like, "Congratulations! You've been born in a first-world country". That's us. Does someone want the rest of these french fries? I supersized my meal but I'm not that hungry.


edit: I think this was it