"The Dangerous Book for Boys"

[conuly]

Check it out.

It's pretty cool-looking - I'm told the book contains information on:

"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"

And more, I'm sure.

Man, I would have killed for this book when I was a kid. I had this book on codes that I read until it fell apart (well, I bought it used), and I still don't know how to skip stones across water.

Of course, the comments don't agree with me...

Despite gender neutral teachings boys' software is as different from that of girls as is their hardware. There are certain things that interest boys and certain things that interest girls. No matter how you rig your gender neutral studies, it will never change.

*glances down*

Yup, still no dangly bits down there. Which is just the way I like it, so it's good.

Of course, when you market information like knot-tying as a boy thing, it's hard to tell who would have been interested in it (or not)... children *do* tend to want to be like everybody else.

Might still buy it for me, though.

Comments

[xianghua.livejournal.com]

Actually, there's an AWESOME book called "Kids' America" that's got all that stuff and more (okay, less about the fish and trees, but it has everything else) (Amazon page here: http://www.amazon.com/Steven-Caneys-Kids-America-Caney/dp/0911104801) and you can get it for $0.20 because it's old and out of print. And it's GREAT. :)

[hopefulnebula]

I have that! :D Or used to. It might still be in storage, and hopefully it wasn't destroyed when the basement flooded...

[carlanime.livejournal.com]

There are certain things that interest boys and certain things that interest girls.

::grins:: Not so much. I got that book last Christmas--from my mother. Only mine's a different edition (http://www.amazon.ca/Dangerous-Book-Boys-Conn-Iggulden/dp/0007232748/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/702-9142771-8051229?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1176516631&sr=8-1). It's well worth owning; I only wish I'd had it when I was ten.

[fledchen.livejournal.com]

"The American Boys' Handy Book" is pretty damned cool, too.

[packbat.livejournal.com]

The Five Knots Every Boy Should Know

Only five? Err ... square, bowline, two half-hitches, ... um, timber hitch, taut-line hitch? Or does the sheet bend come in there somewhere? Are they counting the escaped version of the square (i.e. the 'bow' you tie in your shoes)?

(Honestly, I think everyone should know the seven standards in the Boy Scouts – the above plus the clove hitch – and two or three lashings, but I'm not in charge of public education.)

[xianghua.livejournal.com]

Actually, there's an AWESOME book called "Kids' America" that's got all that stuff and more (okay, less about the fish and trees, but it has everything else) (Amazon page here: http://www.amazon.com/Steven-Caneys-Kids-America-Caney/dp/0911104801) and you can get it for $0.20 because it's old and out of print. And it's GREAT. :)

[hopefulnebula]

I have that! :D Or used to. It might still be in storage, and hopefully it wasn't destroyed when the basement flooded...

[carlanime.livejournal.com]

There are certain things that interest boys and certain things that interest girls.

::grins:: Not so much. I got that book last Christmas--from my mother. Only mine's a different edition (http://www.amazon.ca/Dangerous-Book-Boys-Conn-Iggulden/dp/0007232748/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/702-9142771-8051229?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1176516631&sr=8-1). It's well worth owning; I only wish I'd had it when I was ten.

[fledchen.livejournal.com]

"The American Boys' Handy Book" is pretty damned cool, too.

[packbat.livejournal.com]

The Five Knots Every Boy Should Know

Only five? Err ... square, bowline, two half-hitches, ... um, timber hitch, taut-line hitch? Or does the sheet bend come in there somewhere? Are they counting the escaped version of the square (i.e. the 'bow' you tie in your shoes)?

(Honestly, I think everyone should know the seven standards in the Boy Scouts – the above plus the clove hitch – and two or three lashings, but I'm not in charge of public education.)