The Daring Book for Girls - Hardcover

Buchanan, Andrea; Peskowitz, Miriam

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9780007268559: The Daring Book for Girls

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0007268556 ISBN 13: 9780007268559

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2008

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The only book for all self-respecting girls from the team behind THE DANGEROUS BOOK FOR BOYS

‘The Daring Book for Girls’ is the manual for everything that girls need to know – and that doesn't mean sewing buttonholes!

There have been pale imitations of our ‘Dangerous Book for Boys’ trying to create the same for girls. But nothing has achieved that same feeling of freedom and adventure that the ‘Dangerous Book’ had in abundance. But now ‘The Daring Book for Girls’ will fill that gap. It is a real daring book written by real girls for real girls. And what real girls want, just look at their comments on-line, is adventure, excitement, and just as much danger as the boys.

So here we present to you Famous Women Spies and Pirates, Women Who Changed the World, How to Make and Fly a Kite, Seven Daring Wonders of the World, How to Survive in the Wild, and how to try to begin to understand why boys show you they fancy you by pulling your hair.

The only cooking you’ll find in ‘The Daring Book for Girls’ is cooking over a fire, in the wilderness, while your friends tell you ghost stories to scare you witless!

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Praise for The Daring Book for Girls

'Gung-ho girly advice...the boys had their Dangerous book, now this one is for us'
Good Housekeeping

'I can't imagine not wanting to get stuck in to The Daring Book for Girls. It's an admirable project'
Jenny Diski, Sunday Times

'The authors mix inspiring tales of girls who made good . . . with a scrap bag of how-tos for girlish activities . . . The Daring Book for Girls keeps . . . practical knowledge from getting drowned in the techno-flow' The New York Times

'We've had The Dangerous Book for Boys - now it's our turn. Refreshingly, it's not about lipstick tips, but pioneering women who inspire us' Glamour

About the Author:

Andrea Buchanan is the mother of a daughter and a son, both of whom are equally daring. Before she was a writer, she was a pianist who once performed a solo concert at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall. This is her fifth book.

Miriam Peskowitz is the mother of two girls, including an eight-year-old who climbs trees and leads spy missions in the backyard. She has been a camp counselor, an historian, a blogger, a musician, a professor, and is the author of several books, including The Truth Behind the Mommy Wars.

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