The American Boy's Handy Book

The American Boy's Handy Book - Centennial Edition by D.C. Beard

What to do, and how to do it!

The American Boy's Handy Book is a handbook of activities intended for boys, written by a founder of the Boy Scouts of America, Daniel Carter Beard. It is divided into seasonal sections, with activities appropriate for each season in their respective sections.

This book has been a favorite of boys all over the world for over 100 years.

This book is a great addition to every home library!



Book Details:

• Number of Pages: 441
• Book Size: 5-1/2" x 7-1/2"
• Book Type: Paperback
• Recommended Ages: 8 and up
• ISBN 10: 0-87923-449-0
• ISBN 13: 9780879234492

"If Huckleberry Finn were to settle down, somewhere out there in the territory, and decide to become an author, he might very well come up with a book like this one... evoking the kind of boyhood that nearly every American man would like to have had himself, and hopes that his son (or daughter) might still enjoy." — Washing Post Book World

"...fascinating projects guaranteed to reach and amuse for hours, and, since much has changed since 1882, a lot of those young readers will be girls." — Saint Petersburg Times

"The Handy Book was the perfect survival manual. It contained plans for 16 kinds of kites and hot-air balloons and fishing tackle. It told you how to make and stock an aquarium, to construct a water telescope and how to camp out without a tent. Or in a hut made from pine boughs. How to build 10 kinds of boats, including a flatboat with a covered cabin. Iceboats, too. One-person canoes. Bird calls. Squirt guns with astonishing range and authority. Today you can be privy to all these splended secrets... printed on acid-free paper and sewn in signatures, it will last to be handed down to your great-grandboys." — Henry Kisor, Chicago Sun-Times

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This book represents all that is good about childhood. It is a book that will get kids away from television, video games, and electronics, and out into their backyard for childhood adventures. What could be better than that...

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