- Hardcover: 380 pages
- Publisher: UK General Books (Sep 13 2007)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 000725539X
- ISBN-13: 978-0007255399
- Product Dimensions: 25 x 19.4 x 3.2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 1.1 Kg
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #490,886 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Praise for 'The Dangerous Book for Boys' 'The perfect handbook for boys and dads.' Daily Telegraph 'Full of tips on how to annoy your parents'. Evening Standard 'An old-fashioned compendium of information on items such as making catapults and knot-tying!the end of the PlayStation may have been signalled.' The Times 'Just William would be proud. A new book teaching boys old-fashioned risky pursuits!has become a surprise bestseller.' Daily Mail 'If you want to know how to make crystals, master NATO's phonetic alphabet!and build a workbench, look no further.' Time Out 'Beautifully presented, this is full of new intruiging material to keep the boy in your life - be he eight or 80 - entertained for hours'. Belfast Telegraph "boys stuff that any enquiring mind will love' Scottish Daily Record Praise for Yearbook: "Packed with useful historical facts to impress your friends' Cork Evening Echo
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Packed with historical facts, seasonal activities and space to note your own adventures, 'The Dangerous Book for Boys Yearbook' will keep men and boys busy from January to December Stuffed with seasonal activities to do with your friends: when is conker season? Where can I roll giant cheeses and why? What is flounder tramping and do I really want to do it? Packed with useful historical facts to impress your friends: on what day was Isambard Kingdom Brunel born? When was the land speed record last broken and by whom? When were the Crown Jewels nearly stolen and how? And, on top of Conn and Hal Iggulden's fascinating and fun facts, there is space for you to add your own notes: when did you spot your first robin this year? Do you have a top tip for building the biggest and the best snowman? And is there a piece of family wisdom that you want to remember and treasure? Written with all the verve and wit that readers of 'The Dangerous Book for Boys' have come to love, and designed in the same beautiful packaging, it is a book to treasure -- and to use again and again.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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Dangerous Book for Boys- Yearbook, Feb 17 2010
By M. Flower - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Dangerous Book For Boys Yearbook (Hardcover)
I love this whole series. The yearbook is for the older boy just so you know but my 5 year old strangely loves this book. It is a world history book that focuses on important events that happen on each day of the year. He likes to look up people's birthdays and then I read what happened on that day. It is for the 10+ boy and make sure they like history.
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Not Every Throwback Is a Good Idea, Jan 1 2011
By fredtownward "The Analytical Mind; Have Brain... - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Dangerous Book For Boys Yearbook (Hardcover)
How many people still use printed datebooks to record their appointments or daily comments? And how many of those would like something this large and unwieldy? And how many of those would like as little space as this provides for making entries: 9 or so lines of 2 3/4 inches length per day on average?
Most dates are crammed two to a page; only the occasional for some reason special day has an entire page to itself. Such single page days usually (but not always) offer about double the writing space, finally offering room for a decent sized daily diary entry. Of course if this practice had been followed throughout, the book would have been almost twice as long (and almost twice as thick)!
All of which is just too bad, because after going through it day by day for the last year, I found the daily, monthly, and seasonal factoids invariably interesting and occasionally fascinating. They are very British, of course; no attempt has been made, as was done with the rest of the series: The Dangerous Book for Boys, The Pocket Dangerous Book for Boys: Things to Do, The Pocket Dangerous Book for Boys: Things to Know, and The Dangerous Book of Heroes, to produce volumes tailored for particular countries, which given the lack of passion displayed in the last Americanized book listed, might be just as well. At least the Brothers Iggulden care deeply about the contents of THIS book, and it shows.
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