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(I am not sure if this fits in this forum or in the Chat forum. The description said when in doubt, post it here.)
Have you heard about this book? It looks amazing. Be sure to watch the trailer. My husband found out about it and will be camped out at the bookstore on May 1st to buy a copy.
Most of you amazing moms probably have boys that already know all this stuff, but my husband definitely didn't get this manual when he was a kid and he wants one now for his boys! 
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I thought maybe it was the Backyard Ballistics book. But it looks interesting Matilda. I'll have to check it out.
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It looks like a rewrite (or combination) of the American Boys Handy Book and Field and Forest Handy Book but updated to be a bit more modern. Did you watch the trailer? I'm not sure about the section called "girls"?????
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I totally understand the concern and should have posted this information with my original one.
My husband read this review of the book which had this to say about the chapter on girls:
It's possible to see a less wholesome side to the book's nostalgia. Girls are discussed, in a single chapter, as something akin to another species: "They think and act rather differently to you, but without them, life would be one long football locker room. Treat them with respect."
Girls are explicitly excluded by the book's title.
Iggulden is unconcerned.
"It's not exactly that we are excluding girls, but we wanted to celebrate boys, because nobody has been doing it for a long while," he said.
"I think we've come through the period when we said boys and girls were exactly the same, because they're not. Boys and girls have different interests, different ways of learning, and there's no real problem in writing a book that plays to that, and says, let's celebrate it. Let's go for a book that will appeal to boys."
The Iggulden brothers have sparked a miniboom in gender-specific publishing. Pocket versions of the book and a desk diary are planned. Meanwhile, Penguin is issuing The Great Big Glorious Book for Girls, billed as a book for those who "dream of making elderflower cordial and need reminding of how to play cat's cradle."
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Here Marilyn gives a mini-review...I think we'll be getting a copy for our 3 ds's...
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Thanks Noreen!
I did a search before I posted this to see if the book had already been discussed, but no threads showed up. Maybe I wasn't doing it right. 
Seriously, my husband has already said he is heading to the bookstore when they open on May 1st. I think he really wants it for himself!
He said, "This is in a instruction manual for all the things my mother wouldn't let me do and my father was too busy for!"
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Matilda,
The "girl" chapter aside, I can see how all 4 of my boys (dh included) would love this one! Maybe it's a good thing y'all don't live in Denver -- I might have to wrestle your dh to the ground that morning!
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I wanna get that for dh for Father's Day, he'll love it!!!
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With our fifth boy due the following week, I think this would be a great gift for the big brothers to celebrate the family tht God has given us, where all things weird and dangerous are embraced, and for a dad who loves to be a little boy as much as his little boys! They lugged bricks from all over the yard today to one area and built and MAry garden complete with bamboo garden they constructed...I was so impressed with the tenderness of the moment until I noticed they all had scrathes all over their arms and faces, including dh. When I asked what happened, he sheepishly admitted, "We had a sword fight with the bmboo before it became a grotto..."
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Resurrecting this thread to ask: Comparing Dangerous Book for Boys and Field and Forest Handy Book (we already have American Boys Handy Book but not the Field & Forest one), which would you prefer? We have so many books and I don't want redundant information in my library. Thanks!
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Or how does this compare to either of the above-mentioned books? Help!?!? Father's Day and birthdays are looming close! 
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My boys are loving it. It is a bit of an update fo other books, but is done in very modern language and tone. It is very readable and doable.
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My ds received it as a graduation gift. He loves it. He has skimmed the entire book and spent quite a bit of time on the other sections. In his own words, "it is way better than the other two books!"
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Thank you for this link. I love the idea of this book. I ordered it and can't wait to see it in person.
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I just found it at my local Costco. I haven't checked the price on Amazon...but at Costco it was $14.29.
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KackyK wrote:
I just found it at my local Costco. I haven't checked the price on Amazon...but at Costco it was $14.29.
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That's what I paid at Amazon. (No Costco near me) I did get free shipping as I had a couple more books in my cart eligible for free shipping. 
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It was a total impulse buy for me at Costco. I was looking for a different book. I saw the Dangerous book, remembered the thread here, and dropped it in the cart (never found the book I was intending to buy). It's still sitting on my bedside table waiting for it's turn to be looked at before I let it go to my 10yo ds.
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My 11 year old dd was looking through it today and commented she really wished there was an equivelant book for girls. She was walking around with her nose buried in it and I asked what she was reading - she looked up and said, "The section on girls." I asked how that was and she indicated that she wished the boys in our homeschool group would read it and do what it says. In particular this quote was one she could relate to.
If you see a girl in need of help - unable to lift something, for example - do not taunt her. Approach the object and greet her with a cheerful smile, while surrepititiously testing the weight of the object. If you find you can lift it, go ahead. If you can't, try sitting on it and engaging her in conversation.
Can you tell we've been facing some pre-teen "teasing" boys recently?
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The Great Big Glorious Book For Girls is the girls version, written by girls. Whether or not it makes it to the US...well, we'll see!
Here is the synopsis:
Home-made scones, pom-poms, daisy chains..."The Great Big Glorious Book for Girls" will take women back to a time when we made cup cakes with our grandmothers, when girls weren't obsessed with all things pink, when they didn't wear 'hot to trot' t-shirts aged eight and when a bit of sticky-backed plastic and a tissue box could be the answer to your dreams. Perfect for mothers, grandmothers, aunts and godmothers (as well as daughters, granddaughters, nieces and goddaughters, of course), this is a book for all women who secretly, or not so secretly, loved playing French elastics, dream of making elderflower cordial and need reminding of how to play cat's cradle.
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My dd (11) absolutely LOVES the American Girls Handibook (not an AG book), it's Victorian in flavor, but SO MUCH cool stuff! Sorry, having trouble finding the link at the moment...
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