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The American Boy's Handy Book: What to Do and How to Do It (Nonpareil Book, 29)
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The American Boy's Handy Book: What to Do and How to Do It (Nonpareil Book, 29)
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by Daniel Carter Beard
Sales Rank: 2576
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List Price: $12.95
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Features
Reading level: Ages 9-12
Paperback: 441 pages
Publisher: David R Godine; Centennial edition October 1, 1998
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0879234490
ISBN-13: 978-0879234492
Product Dimensions:
7.5 x 5.5 x 1.6 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
Product Review
If Huckleberry Finn were to settle down, somewhere out there in the territory, and decide to become an author, he might very well come up with a book like this one . . . evoking the kind of boyhood that nearly every American man would like to have had himself, and hope that his son (or daughter) might still enjoy.
Product Review
Today you can be privy to all these splendid secrets . . . printed on acid-free paper and sewn in signatures, it will last to be handed down to you great-grandboys.
Owner Reviews, Ratings, Comments and Criticism
Filled with black & white illustrations and schematics, this guide for American boys, originally published in 1882, is organized by season and is chock-full of instructions, suggestions and advice about kites, fishing, knots, telescopes, tents, soap bubbles, animals, snowball warfare, puppets, kaleidoscopes, whirligigs, costumes, decoys--even fireworks!! The emphasis is on building things yourself, and to that end it is an extremely valuable handbook for our increasingly passive society. There are definitely things here that will give you pause or that are culturally dated -- like making a blow gun, trapping and raising wild animals and taxidermy at home -- but that is where parenting comes in, and all-in-all I would say this is a valuable and exciting book for kids, filled with pragmatic insights and a fun historical document as well. Snowball war, anyone?
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