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Series
Language
English
Description
Adapted, in moderation, for American customs in this edition (cricket is gone, rugby remains; conkers are out, Navajo Code Talkers in), The Dangerous Book is a guide book for dads as well as their sons, as a reminder of lore and technique that have not yet been completely lost to the digital age. Recall the adventures of Scott of the Antarctic and the Battle of the Somme, relearn how to palm a coin, tan a skin, and, most charmingly, wrap a package...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Language
English
Description
A whole day is plenty of time to finish your homework or go to the park, but did you ever imagine that in a single day you take around 8,000 steps; 100,000 of your taste buds are replaced; a bat eats up to 1,000 insects; 27,000 trees are cut down just to make toilet paper in the United States; and a mayfly lives its entire life? Here are presented almost 200 incredible facts like these.
Author
Publisher
Collins
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
"Many of the pieces in this edition have been selected from the much loved The Dangerous Book for Boys. They have been chosen to give readers things to do, inside and out, during the long summer days. This edition is a perfect format for readers to take everywhere with them. It has new drawings and new activities."
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Designed with the same nostalgic look and feel as the first book [(The dangerous book for boys)], this companion volume includes more than 70 new chapters and important skills ... [including how to write a thank-you note, make a cup of coffee, and find the height of a tree]"--Publisher marketing.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
Contains over four hundred lists and illustrations that present the order, hierarchy, and structure of both natural and man-made things, such as the longest rivers, the highest mountains, the ranks of the Mafia, and the order of events in the Big Bang; grouped in thirteen areas of knowledge.
12) Amazing facts
Publisher
Time-Life Books
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
Description
Answers such questions as "Why are there seven days in a week?" and "Where did chewing gum come from?"
Author
Publisher
Collins
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
"The Daring Book for Girls" is the manual for everything that adventurous girls need to know from female heroes in history to secret note-passing skills, science projects to friendship bracelets, the perfect cartwheel to the eternal mystery of what boys are thinking.
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