 Get those boys off the couch or computer! 14 of 14 people found this review helpful.
Conn and Hal Iggulden have sculpted a childhood literary opus that is not only a wonderful compilation, but a handsome book to boot.
The Igguldens have put into book form the majority of boyhood curiosities that have been missing from American culture for generations. With so many boys being raised by single mothers or who have fathers who work long hours, this book comes just in time to restore and maintain Neverland for future generations.
I love the sections on pirate flags and famous battles.
As a boy-at-heart, I found much of the topics fascinating. Much of the activities the book covers were things I discovered as a boy, but without such an inspiring guide.
These are the things boys should know, with lots of hands-on, down-and-dirty, healthy steps to manhood.
I cannot imagine this book being any less healthy for girls either.
This book has an inspiring trailer on You Tube as well.
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What a marvelous idea for a book! It puts into action what G. K. Chesterton wrote in a 1906 magazine article:
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A child's instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting; a child always stands for the good militarism as against the bad. The child's hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression. The child's hero is never the man or boy who attempts by his mere personal force to extend his mere personal influence. In all boys' books, in all boys' conversation, the hero is one person and the bully the other. That combination of the hero and bully in one, which people now call the Strong Man or the Superman, would be simply unintelligible to any schoolboy....
But really to talk of this small human creature, who never picks up an umbrella without trying to use it as a sword, who will hardly read a book in which there is no fighting, who out of the Bible itself generally remembers the "bluggy" [bloody] parts, who never walks down the garden without imagining himself to be stuck all over with swords and daggers--to take this human creature and talk about the wickedness of teaching him to be military, seems rather a wild piece of humour. He has already not only the tradition of fighting, but a far manlier and more genial tradition of fighting than our own. No; I am not in favour of the child being taught militarism. I am in favour of the child teaching it.
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And for those rainy days with mommy makes the young warrior stay indoors, get him wonderful, imaginative books such as Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island, Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer/Huckleberry Finn, and Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, along with tales of exploration like those of Ernest Shackleton and the two brave young men in Across Asia on a Bicycle
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