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The Outdoor Handy Book: For Playground, Field, and Forest Kindle Edition

by Daniel Carter Beard (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.1 4.1 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
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Ingenuity and self-reliance are valuable qualities in a boy or man," writes famed outdoorsman Daniel Carter Beard. And what better way to foster them than by working—or playing—with your hands? For fathers who want to build the model ships (or real boats!) they never knew how to build, and sons who want to build the ultimate snow fort, The Outdoor Handy Book is a perfect compendium of wisdom and mischief. In its pages are directions for flying paper dragons, stilt-walking, playing dozens of ball games, building doghouses, capturing butterflies and frogs, and much more. Fully illustrated, and replete with notes to make sure that your fun is varied, continuous, and instructional in every season of the year, The Outdoor Handy Book is great all-ages activities resource, whether you're at the workbench or communing with nature.
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  1. Reading age
    8 - 12 years
  2. Print length
    518 pages
  3. Language
    English
  4. Grade level
    4 - 6
  5. Publisher
    Skyhorse
  6. Publication date
    May 17, 2008
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    Enabled
  8. Word Wise
    Enabled
  9. Enhanced typesetting
    Enabled
  10. Sticky notes
    On Kindle Scribe
  11. ISBN-13
    978-1602392687
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Daniel Carter Beard (1850-1941) was an author, illustrator, and founder of two societies for boys—the Sons of Daniel Boone in 1905 and the Boy Scouts of America in 1910. He authored and illustrated more than twenty books, including The American Boys Handy Book.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B004UMRY9Y
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Skyhorse; Skyhorse Kids edition (May 17, 2008)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 17, 2008
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 30711 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 518 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.1 4.1 out of 5 stars 20 ratings

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mykol
5.0 out of 5 stars it is by a good author and is worth adding to the collection
Reviewed in the United States on November 10, 2014
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This deserves 5 stars because it is what it is.

However, if you think (like I did) that it was an instructional guide on building structures (swings, slides, clubhouse, etc) be forewarned that it is not.

With that said, it is by a good author and is worth adding to the collection. It is filled with many ideas for outdoor activities and games. It stands as a glance into an era of time before fast food and video games. A simpler time, when children where actually outdoors, as opposed to couch potatoes growing increasingly overweight doing nothing more than eating fast food and playing video games.

But this book for your own curiosity or better yet, for that child who complains "there's nothing do" (other than tv and video games and computers) and send them outside Untill dark. The same way we grew up.
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Steven J. Ruedy
5.0 out of 5 stars Daniel Carter Beard (BSA)
Reviewed in the United States on May 6, 2017
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Dan Beard is one of my personal heroes and one of the founding members of the Boy Scouts of America (with Thomas Earnest Seaton and William Boyce.) I have made a point of picking up anything that shows up that he has written. And wish I had been born back in the time that his books were more relevant. Parents these days wouldn't allow their off springs to have as much fun as ol' Dan could cook up. All kinds of games and projects by season, and one of my personal favorites; knife throwing as a game with rules and requirements.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Classic Beard
Reviewed in the United States on November 10, 2014
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"Uncle"Dan was a prolific woodcraft writer around the turn of the 20th century. He founded the Boy Pioneers and the Sons of Daniel Boone, which in turn helped form the BSA. Many of his books are bargains. I spent 4 mos in the woods and used them as a guide.
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nieves barraza
2.0 out of 5 stars Bad
Reviewed in the United States on January 20, 2019
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It had nearly nothing on forest and had everything on playground. It was not fun to read expecting Forrest related things...
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B. Jackson
5.0 out of 5 stars Modern mothers might not like this book.
Reviewed in the United States on March 30, 2014
This book gives boys lot's of ideas and info on things like building a raft, using and making a blowgun, skinning an eel, rules for mumbly peg with a pocket knife, instructions for every marbles game ever created, how to make a bating suit, ect, ect. . Priceless look at what boys used to do before video games and television. Originally published in 1896 as "The American Boys Book of Sport" This is the revised and updated 1930 version retitled to "The Outdoor Handy Book" This book is priceless and is a fascinating look at how things used to be.
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