The Dangerous Book for Boys

**The bestselling book—more than 1.5 million copies sold—for every boy from eight to eighty, covering essential boyhood skills such as building tree houses *, learning how to fish, finding true north, and even answering the age old question of what the big deal with girls is—now a Prime Original Series created by Bryan Cranston (* Breaking Bad *) and Greg Mottola (* Superbad* ).** In this digital age, there is still a place for knots, skimming stones and stories of incredible courage. This book recaptures Sunday afternoons, stimulates curiosity, and makes for great father-son activities. The brothers Conn and Hal have put together a wonderful collection of all things that make being young or young at heart fun—building go-carts and electromagnets, identifying insects and spiders, and flying the world’s best paper airplanes. Skills covered include: * The Greatest Paper Airplane in the World * The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World * The Five Knots Every Boy Should Know * Stickball * Slingshots * Fossils * Building a Treehouse* * Making a Bow and Arrow * Fishing (revised with US Fish) * Timers and Tripwires * Baseball’s “Most Valuable Players” * Famous Battles-Including Lexington and Concord, The Alamo, and Gettysburg * Spies-Codes and Ciphers * Making a Go-Cart * Navajo Code Talkers’ Dictionary * Girls * Cloud Formations * The States of the U.S. * Mountains of the U.S. * Navigation * The Declaration of Independence * Skimming Stones * Making a Periscope * The Ten Commandments * Common US Trees * Timeline of American History *For more information on building treehouses, visit www.treehouse-books.com and www.stilesdesigns.com or see “Treehouses You Can Actually Build” by David Stiles.