The Bottom Line
Pros
- A tween girl's guide to life, living, fun, and history
- A great resource for travel or home
- Buy two (keep one, give one)
- This is a keeper (it won't end up in the giveaway pile)
Cons
- Wish I wrote it
Description
- Girls can learn a variety of skills including pressing flowers, playing four square, or running a lemonaid stand.
- This is a great book for girls looking to entertain themselves, entertain others, or for parents or teachers needing ideas.
- There's truly something for every girl in The Daring Book for Girls. It's appeal is broad and worthy of a girl's attention.
Guide Review - The Daring Book for Girls - A Review of The Daring Book for Girls
Formatted as a handbook for girls, The Daring Book for Girls shows girls how to make a lemon-powered clock, read palms, plan sleepover activities, read the periodic table, do a back walk-over, learn foreign language phrases, and tons more. The book is fun just to read, but imagine the fun a girl will have when she puts the information to use.
In addition to projects and crafts, history lessons are sprinkled throughout the book. Young girl readers will learn about the inspiring adventures of females notables such as Joan of Arc, Abigail Adams, Amelia Earhart, and Cleopatra of Egypt.
Practical information is offered up as well, including information on how to care for a softball glove, how to put your hair up with just a pencil, how to change a tire, and how to build a campfire.
Craft project ideas include how to press flowers, how to make a sit-upon, how to make a friendship bracelet, how to make daisy chains and ivy crowns, and how to make a ring from a peach pit. Note: the first thing you do is eat the peach.
If you like The Daring Book for Girls you'll have to check out the authors' follow-up book, The Double Daring Book for Girls. Go ahead, I dare you!
