Posted on 04/24/2007 7:51:44 AM PDT by qam1
I am SO getting my son this book when it’s published.....
CC&E
This sounds great!
Sounds Great!
I hope they become colossal billionaires.
The Nanny Staters aren’t going to like this one
They’ll ban it or add a chapter on “how to be a limp wristed London Metro boy toy”...
“It’s not exactly that we are excluding girls, but we wanted to celebrate boys, because nobody has been doing it for a long while,” he said.
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I read about this book some time back, and I will definitely be getting it for my stepgrandson’s birthday.
Thank goodness we finally have something to counter those stupid t-shirts that say “Girls Can Do Anything”.
You can only find those at your neighborhood mosque.
An absolutely excellent volume. Also worth checking out: “The Big Book of Boy Stuff” - fairly new, but excellent; and “The American Boy’s Handy Book” - old, but absolutely timeless and one of the great classics of an American boy’s life.
Abbie Hoffmann’s “Steal This Book” was my childhood bible for instigating mischief, at least until dad sent me to boot camp.
Me too.
Seems like in order to lift up girls we had to kick down boys.
In popular culture today, where are the great role models for boys? I at least had Johnny Quest, Sgt. Rock comic books and the like. My boys get Johnny Bravo (an egotistical buffoon), Ed, Edd and Eddie (three buffoons), the Power Puff Girls (three girls, actually), Kim Possible (a girl with a boy buffon for a side kick). They enjoyed Samurai Jack, a great heroic character that always fought for the right thing, but it was dropped.
Ahh, for a copy of Boys’ Life.
Does everything have to be about sexual equality. Has the author of this review seen no books aimed strictly at girls?
Try peeing on a campfire...
What a breath of fresh air, and what a weapon against the culture’s pansification of boys.
I’m ordering it today. My kid is going to love it.
I’ve got a copy of American Girls Handy Book stashed somewhere, too. Both are great books that my children enjoyed while they were growing up as wild, happy, little barbarians. :-)
It’s about darned time! Boys have been getting the short end of the stick for years!
Several years ago I bought my grandson a large bag of plastic farm animals, people and cars. He dumped them out on the floor and just looked at them. He wanted to know “what do they do”. I had to show him how to play with them. If they didn’t do something on their own he had no idea how to play with them.
As a kid we spent days making elaborate farms with match stick fences and even little ponds and barns.
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