The Double Dangerous Book for Boys: 70+ hands-on adventures―from picking padlocks to building treehouses―for screen-free family fun with dads and grads.
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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Dangerous Book for Boys comes the long-awaited sequel – another action-packed adventure guide featuring full-color illustrations, perfect for dads, grads, and boys of all ages. The Double Dangerous Book for Boys is a treasure trove of the essential hands-on activities and skills that have defined generations of boyhoods, from building a treehouse to fishing to finding true north. Designed with the same nostalgic look and feel as the first book, this companion volume includes more than 70 new chapters and important skills, fascinating historical information, and captivating stories, including: How to pick a padlock Making a Flying Machine Tying a Windsor Knot Advice from Fighting Men Questions About the Law Chess Openings Making Perfume Maps of Historic Empires: British, Ottoman, Genghis, Persian, Medes, Babylonian, Alexander Great Speeches Forgotten Explorers How to Wire a Plug and Make a lamp Writing a Thank You Letter Polishing Shoes Parents looking to reduce screen time and rediscover the great outdoors will find a perfect resource in this book, full of screen-free family activities to fill weekend afternoons and summer days with wonder, excitement, adventure, and fun―learn to build go-carts and electromagnets, identify insects and spiders, and fly the world’s best paper airplanes. This charming and practical guide, packed with hundreds of full-color charts, maps, diagrams, and illustrations, will ignite the imagination and stimulate curiosity, and provide grandfathers, fathers, sons, and brothers the perfect opportunity for father-son bonding. Conn Iggulden has at last put together a second wonderful collection that is the essence of boyhood. Review: A help - This book is gives an excellent alternative to game-playing and general addiction to and on social media. Skills and practical approaches to use with so many of life’s challenges. Review: Books as gifts - Quick shipping. product as described
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| Customer Reviews | 4.8 out of 5 stars 2,293 Reviews |
A**A
A help
This book is gives an excellent alternative to game-playing and general addiction to and on social media. Skills and practical approaches to use with so many of life’s challenges.
J**D
Books as gifts
Quick shipping. product as described
C**I
Any man-child will love this book
A book FULL of absolutely random BOY things! Instructions on how to build a treehouse (including materials needed), what to say and not-to-say to girls, the perfect paper airplane, changing a tire, etc., etc., etc. Literally random stuff. My husband bought himself AND my grandson a copy.
B**E
A must-have for any home library
Super fun book! The fun just keeps going when you also have the prequel, 'The Dangerous Book for Boys'. Lots of exciting projects and ideas, educational information and facts, stories, and other things that boys and girls alike will enjoy for hours of great reading.
E**M
Great Follow Up to The First Book
This a great follow up to the first book, which I've gifted to my nephews. The Dangerous Book series is great for kids (and kids at heart) to try activities and learn new skills while having fun.
M**Y
??? Chapter 1 - "How To Pick A Lock" ???
The Double Dangerous Book For Boys is not for parents who are faint of heart. The title of the very first chapter is, "How To Pick A Lock", compete with detailed black and white drawings explaining the same. I bought this book for my best friend's child. I'm going to have to run the book by my friend before I give it to him. She's a laid back kind of person; her son is smart and well-behaved but still; I wouldn't give this book to someone not of legal age without asking their parent(s) to preview it first. I bought the first book, The Dangerous Book For Boys, years ago. It wasn't so "dangerous" but it was a fun and interesting book. It's been awhile. idk, maybe knowing how to pick a lock is a good thing to know these days. The world certainly is changing.
W**P
So much fun
A great book. I bought the previous version for myself and my son. I buy this new edition for each new boy dad I know and everyone (born in 1989 or earlier for reference) loves it.
S**E
Great bood for boys and girls
Just as good as the first book.
A**R
Fantastic
A different type of learning experience and images explain themselves simply
M**K
Screen time cure
My son was a baby when the first Dangerous Book For Boys was published, and my husband and I read it together in anticipation of the adventures we would have. Sadly we never did build the Dangerous book tree house.... but this second book comes out just in time for my son’s 13th birthday and couldn’t be a more timely purchase. Half Why Don’t You.... half geek’s paradise, the Double Dangerous book is the perfect antidote for screen obsessed Kevin the teenager types. We’ve already revisited forgotten games like Spoons and Flour & Matchstick, our daughter has attempted a jumping paper frog and a neglected Rubik’s cube has been dusted off. In a packed book there is something for everyone. For us, pencil catapults beat Great British Trees but even making a stink bomb is encouraged in our house when any family time together wins against fortnight. The house to build in the second Dangerous book is an igloo. Roll on winter.
P**L
Cracking book
Cracking book
M**Y
Better price than indigo
Such a good book for the girls too.
B**2
A good sequel to the original
My boys loved the first, now I see them ploughing through this to get more ideas to keep them busy beyond screens. A+
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