The Dangerous Book for Boys is a big red tome of a thing stuffed full of projects, experiments, science, games, secret knowledge, and what the authors Conn and Hal Iggulden call "stories of courage."
Upon cracking The Dangerous Book for Boys, my five-year-old son and I spent an hour repeatedly building and flying "The Greatest Paper Airplane in the World," which is, in fact, the best airplane I've ever made. We've since read about the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World and the section on dinasaurs; we made a water bomb; and I recently promised that we would make a bow and arrow described in this book, the next time we ventured into the forest.
The Dangerous Book for Boys is the ideal gift for a father and son (or mother, or daughter) to share on a buffet-style basis. It's not something that anyone is going to read straight through, but one day you may want to read about the Golden Ae of Piracy, while next week you might find the gumption to grow crystals, learn coin tricks, or build an electromagnet. If those aren't intriguing enough, there's a map of the United States, a Navajo Code-Talkers dictionary, a section on dog tricks, and another on how to skip stones. There are roughly 85 different activities/stories/chapters to choose from, certainly enough to interest everybody at sometime or another.
Truly a book for everyone in the family, The Dangerous Book for Boys is a timeless gift, for kids of all ages.
