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The American Boy's Handy Book: What to Do and How to Do It (Nonpareil Book, 29) | 
 enlarge | Author: Daniel Carter Beard
Creator: Noel Perrin
Brand: Channel Craft
Category: Book
List Price: $12.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  34 reviews
Sales Rank: 34023
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Young Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 441
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.5 x 1.6
MPN: HBB
ISBN: 0879234490
Dewey Decimal Number: 790.194
EAN: 9780879234492
ASIN: 0879234490
Publication Date: October 1, 1998
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Product Description
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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 The American Boy's Handy Book: What to Do and How to Do It August 31, 2008
The book came in expected condition. They shipped quickly and did a great job.
 Teachers take note of this gem August 25, 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.
 american boys handy book July 27, 2008
0 out of 4 found this review helpful
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.
Get 'em out of the house March 1, 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.
 More coffee table book than practical treatise... January 25, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
I was rather disappointed in this book, as I had bought it based in large part on other's reviews, thinking it would give my boys some really good ideas on things to do with their idle time. When I received and thumbed through the book, however, it appeared clearly more of a nostalgic coffee table book than a "how to" manual of the activities/projects it covers. I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone seeking help with filling up a boy's idle time, but instead to those needing another book for their coffee table or bathroom rack. It's a nicely written book, but I believe improperly packaged/marketed as a "how-to" book, misleading the buyer/reader.
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