The Dangerous Book for Boys

The Dangerous Book for Boys

(670 customer reviews)

The bestselling book for every boy from eight to eighty, covering essential boyhood skills such as building tree houses, learning how to fish, finding true north, and even answering the age old question of what the big deal with girls is.

In this digital age there is still a place for knots, skimming stones and stories of incredible courage. This book recaptures Sunday afternoons, stimulates curiosity, and makes for great father-son activities. The brothers Conn and Hal have put together a wonderful collection of all things that make being young or young at heart fun--building go-carts and electromagnets, identifying insects and spiders, and flying the world's best paper airplanes.

The completely revised American Edition includes:

The Greatest Paper Airplane in the World
The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
The Five Knots Every Boy Should Know
Stickball
Slingshots
Fossils
Building a Treehouse
Making a Bow and Arrow
Fishing (revised with US Fish)
Timers and Tripwires
Baseball's "Most Valuable Players"
Famous Battles-Including Lexington and Concord, The Alamo, and Gettysburg
Spies-Codes and Ciphers
Making a Go-Cart
Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary
Girls
Cloud Formations
The States of the U.S.
Mountains of the U.S.
Navigation
The Declaration of Independence
Skimming Stones
Making a Periscope
The Ten Commandments
Common US Trees
Timeline of American History

ISBN13: 9780061243585
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Product Details:

Author:	Conn Iggulden
Hardcover:	270 pages
Publisher:	William Morrow
Publication Date:	May 01, 2007
Language:	English
ISBN:	0061243582
Package Length:	9.8 inches
Package Width:	7.6 inches
Package Height:	1.2 inches
Package Weight:	2.35 pounds
Average Customer Rating:	based on 670 reviews

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Average Customer Review: 4.5

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Best Gift I've Ever Bought! Nov 16, 2009
My younger brother was given this book several years ago and even I loved it, so when I was given the opportunity to get it for someone else, I couldn't resist! It's full of very fun, old school, boy stuff. I hope the little boy I got it for enjoys it as much as I think he will

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Loads of Fun! Oct 11, 2009
I bought this book for my 9 year old cousin's birthday gift. This is a kid who can rattle off all the Yankees starters and clings to his Nintendo DS like it's the only thing keeping him alive. He unwrapped it and tossed it aside. "Fail", I sighed to myself. A few hours later when the party had calmed down he started flipping throgh it. "Whoa, invisible ink!" were the first words out of his mouth. We sat around that evening and read aloud about Scott's expedition to the Antarctic while he and his sister sat in rapt attention. According to my aunt it is still his favorite book and gets a lot of play when his friends are over.

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Dangerous book for boys Oct 02, 2009
I got this for my son on his 11th birthday and he loves it. He reads and rereads it. Great for a gift!

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Dangerous Book for Boys Sep 02, 2009
I purchased this book for my grandson. He loves the book and has many markers showing what he wants to try next. Thank you for a great book.

Dangerous? Aug 27, 2009
I would certainly not call this book Dangerous literally. Yet I think I know what the author is getting at. Like another reviewer said, this book is written to allow boys be boys and not apologize for it. Go out and scrape your knee, camp in a field, build a treehouse, chuck some rocks, compare your baseball knowledge. In this day and age it may be considered by some to be "dangerous" to teach boys to be men, but I feel we don't need another generation of boys who can't hammer a nail. Hopefully more young men will read books such as this one and learn that it's okay to be a boy. Others will say that this book is nothing like the old Popular Mechanics and boy scout manuals that many of us read when we were kids, and this book is hardly dangerous. I say to them "one step at a time"

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