Telephone book facts for kids

Yellow pages telephone book

A telephone book or phone book or telephone directory is a book that has lists of telephone numbers of people and businesses. People use phone books to look up the phone numbers of people and places when they need to call them. One example of a telephone book is Yellow Pages.

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  A "white pages" telephone directory

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  The first telephone directory, printed in New Haven, Connecticut, United States, in November 1878