The American Boy's Handy Book: What to Do and How to Do It (Nonpareil Book, 29) | 
|  | | | Title: | The American Boy's Handy Book: What to Do and How to Do It (Nonpareil Book, 29) | | Author: | Daniel Carter Beard
Noel Perrin (Foreword) | | Publisher: | David R Godine | | Type: | Book / Paperback | | Publication Date: | 01 October, 1998 | | ISBN / ISBN-13: | 0879234490 / 9780879234492 | | List Price: | $12.95 | | You Save: | $2.59 | | Amazon Price: | $10.36 | |
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Written by the founder of the Boys Scouts, Dan Beard, his wife and daughter (Lena & Adelia), founders of the Campfire Girls. Full of indoor & outdoor activities.
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• Some Things Simply Never Change. 07 September, 2008
Some things simply never change. "The American Boy's Handy Book" is a guide for young boys who still find the time of playing outside highly appealing. Although 126 years old, the ideas are just as applicable today as they were then. The ideas and games presented encourage children to use their own imagination and build their own toys, to create their own fun. In a time of fears of childhood obesity, "The American Boy's Handy Book" may just be what some children need.
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• American Boys Handy Book 27 July, 2008
I looked at this book but ordered another. You included this along with my order. Because or your archaic system (perhaps intentional) although I tried to cancel it immediately, you do not allow cancellations.
Thanks for asking because its impossible to talk to a real person when needed.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A21WIBLE9BYPOP
• Teachers Take Note Of This Gem 25 August, 2008
Looking for a new way to make Mark Twain come alive in your classroom? Help your students travel back in time by engaging in some of the wonderful projects in The American Boy's Handy Book by Daniel Carter Beard. Aside from illustrating some of Twain's work, Beard was an avid educator who also was a co-founder of the Boy Scouts of America. He wrote their first Boy Scout Handbook and was a lifelong advocate of making your own fun. This treasure of a book will suggest projects for your class which will help them understand the world of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn. Make kites in the shape of stars, turtles, shields and dragons. Build your own giant bubble machine or a Puss in Boots puppet show (script is included). Avoid the more violent blow guns and fighting kites but enjoy the simplicity and just plain fun of this book. Along the way, your students will have a new appreciation for Mark Twain's world and the boys he wrote about.
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• The American Boy's Handy Book: What To Do And How To Do It 31 August, 2008
The book came in expected condition. They shipped quickly and did a great job.
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• Get 'em Out Of The House 01 March, 2008
This is a masterwork by one of the founders of the Scouting movement. It is designed to provide children (boys) with ideas and plans to make everything from kites to traps to invisible ink. It is writen in a style that is easy for the child to understand. In an age when kids can't be pried away from the TV and video games, this book takes us back to a simpler time when kids were sent outside in the morning and didn't come back in until supper.
My 25 year old son asked for this for Christmas because he loved it so as a boy, and I wouldn't part with my copy.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A2LRCKQIK8YAZ5
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