The Dangerous Book for Boys

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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

What Customers Say About The Dangerous Book for Boys:

I received an extremely painful paper cut whilst reading this text. This IS a dangerous book.

This book is a copy of an old book i have calledTHE GREAT AMERICAN DEPRESSION BOOK OF FUN.by John Odell printed in 1981.

Share it with your boys. Get it. You'll enjoy it too, I promise. I bought this book thinking that I already was a great dad & I knew everything of importance that needed to be instilled into my boys daily process of growing up living our American dream.I was mistaken. This book has so much great information in it-things I did & tried to do, but forgot about.

I gave this to my 50 year old brother-in-law and ended up reading most of it before I would wrap it.It brings back memories and makes you think of memories you'll be creating in the future.

It's just FULL of stuff that's interesting to young boys and adults. I bought this for my 11 year old son as a gift and have spent many nights reading it with him. Last night we read through 'Girls' and 'The Declaration of Independence' He's excited to build trip wires to set off alarms on his younger brother.