[Finny]

There is irony in that these “indoor” boys need to read a book about things that should come as second nature to them ...

Boy's books are nothing new. My husband has a superb boy's book from the early 1900s with incredible illustrations. There are instructions in this book for everything from making a winged sail for when you're ice skating, to "Taxidermy for Boys."

[The King of Elflands Daughter]

That book is probably The American Boy’s Handy Book: What to Do and How to Do It by Daniel Carter Beard. It’s available in a couple of reprints now. An amusing compendium of boy lore. An excellent book for boys.

—tkoed

[hinckley buzzard]

Boy's books are nothing new

True. I grew up with "Boy's Life" and the Boy Scout Handbook. Taught me everything I needed to knwo about living in the woods.

[Kirkwood]

I didn’t say finding info in a book was new... the Boy Scout Manual has been around for a very long time as well. I said it was ironic.

[HungarianGypsy]

Boy's books are nothing new. My husband has a superb boy's book from the early 1900s with incredible illustrations. There are instructions in this book for everything from making a winged sail for when you're ice skating, to "Taxidermy for Boys."

We have that book. My boys were disappointed in a lot of it. We live in the city, so many of the things in the book we can't do. :(