The Daring Book for Girls
Written by Andrea J. Buchanan and Miriam Peskowitz
Narrated by Ilyana Kadushin
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About this audiobook
For every girl with an independent spirit and a nose for trouble, here is the no-boys-allowed guide to everything from school yard games to great women in history!
The Daring Book for Girls is the manual for everything that girls need to know—and that doesn't mean sewing buttonholes!
Audio includes:
Fourteen Games of Tag • Queens of the Ancient World • Every Girl's Toolbox • The Daring Girls Guide to Danger • Slumber Party Games • Climbing • First Aid • Boys • How to Change a Tire • Jacks
Whether readers consider themselves tomboys, girly-girls, or a little bit of both, this book is every girl's invitation to adventure.
Andrea J. Buchanan
Andrea J. Buchanan is a New York Times bestselling author whose work includes The Daring Book for Girls, the multimedia young adult novel Gift, Mother Shock, and seven other books. Before becoming a writer, Andrea trained as a pianist, earning a bachelor of music degree in piano performance from the Boston Conservatory at Berklee and a master’s in piano performance from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. She lives with her family in Philadelphia. Visit her at www.andibuchanan.com.
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Reviews for The Daring Book for Girls
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Cute...a little trip down memory lane.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5wonderfull info for playing spys and if you just get bored
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I didn't read every word of this - after all I'm an adult with a disability and I won't be playing basketball or doing cartwheels any time soon. But I read enough to know that I would have loved this as a girl. What a variety of games, crafts, chants, tidbits from history & other courses, poems, a reading list, 'how-tos' for athletics, etc. etc.! Told with the voice of a favorite aunt. I recommend it as a gift to a girl age 7-10, as there's both stuff she can do now, and stuff she'll grow into. I'm going to let my hair grow out so I can get it up with a chopstick. And right now I'm off to add some of the recommended books to my 'to-read' shelf!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Everything a girl needs to know and some fun things to know.... A young girl can lean how to make ivy chains, bandana tying, make her own paper climbing, write letters,knots and stitches and how to press flowers...along with about 75 other really awesome things to do or learn... A must for any girl..
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Book: The Daring Book for GirlsAuthor: Miriam PeskowitzCharacters: NoneSetting: Not applicableTheme: Adventures/ imagination and buildingGenre: How to. . . Audience: ages 8 +Curriculum: A teacher can use some of these activities for students to get them excited and actively learning something new so long as they can find the activity relevant to the lesson plan. For example, there's a section on traveling to Africa and there's a map with small captions about each country. Summary: Book is intended to use to have activities and fun using imagination, creating their own adventure and having in the process of learning. Personal Response: This is a really cute book with lots of stuff to do and with illustrations that also seem to add to the context. Some images help more than others but they break up the blocks of text to help keep the attention of the reader.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Daring Book for Girls by Andrea J. Buchanan and Miriam Peskowitz is a great nonfiction book. This book is a girls how-to guide over pretty much everything. This book gives rules to sports such as basketball and softball, shows how to tie knots, fold a shirt Japanese style, and make a seine net.This is a book I would have loved as a young girl. I can’t wait till my girls are big enough to enjoy it.There is also a boy’s version to this book I would have the students read all or parts of both books. I would have them make observations about whether the parts in the book are generally for one sex or the other. Then as a class we would try a few things in the books.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I'm really glad that there was such a demand for a girl's only version of the dangerous book for boys! This one has everything from jump-roping rhymes to the history of strong woman who made a difference. Excellent book.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5280 pages of tips on sports, history of women spies, hiking, carving, linguistics, you name it. Too fun, and very nice illustrations.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5As a nostalgic 20-something, I have to say, I preferred [The Dangerous Book for Boys]. Perhaps that stems from the fact that I was a tomboy, and am now the mother of two boys.This certainly has its merits, including some interesting historical lessons tied into more traditional how-tos (I loved the letter writing section paired with letters between Abigail and John Adams). I am very pleased that Peskowitz included a list of books as well. While I own many of them, I always love suggestions of what to pick up next.