The Wonder Years (Michael W. Smith box set) explained

The Wonder Years 1983–1993
Type:box
Artist:Michael W. Smith
Cover:MWS The Wonder Years.jpg
Released:January 1, 1993
Recorded:1982–1992
Genre:Contemporary Christian music
Length:144:19
Label:Reunion
Prev Title:Change Your World
Prev Year:1992
Next Title:The First Decade
(1983-1993)
Next Year:1993

The Wonder Years 1983–1993 is two-CD package compilation album with accompanying book released by Reunion Records in 1993, and is intended to be a greatest hits album with a career retrospective of the contemporary Christian musician, Michael W. Smith. The elaborate slipcase packaging contains a 10.5inchesx6inchesin (xin) spiral-bound book that contains facing pairs of pages highlighting each of his prior eight albums. Each spread featured photographs and an accompanying background story on this period in his career. Inside the back cover are two trays which contain the two picture CDs.

The album won a Dove Award for Recorded Music Packaging of the Year at the 25th GMA Dove Awards in 1994. This album has since gone out of print in favor of the more modest (and more focused) greatest hits collection The First Decade (1983-1993), which was released later that same year. This album is also notable to collectors for being the only issued CD containing the radio single version of "I Know" from The Live Set.