American Girl's Handy Book
Originally printed in 1890 under the title, What to Do and How to Do it, the boys' edition was the precursor to the Boy Scout manual and is packed with intriguing projects to keep any boy or girl fully interested! Even though these books are unchanged in the last 100 years, the projects and adventure suggestions are fascinating for modern day children. For girls, there are lots of old fashioned crafts, toys, gifts, cornhusk and flower dolls, recipes, decorations, perfumes, wax and clay modeling, oil and watercolor painting and games. For boys, you will find plans to build 16 kinds of kites, to construct a water telescope or a hot air balloon, or to camp out without a tent or in a hut made from pine boughs. Build 10 kinds of boats, learn to imitate bird calls or make a squirt gun with astonishing accuracy. The contents are divided up into Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter projects. Reading level, 10 years-teen. Enjoyment level for projects: 4 years-teens. (Note: there is a bit of magic true to the customs and play of the turn-of-the-century.) Paperback, 450 pages each. |
