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Sunday, November 4, 2007

The Daring Book for Girls

A while back, The Parent Bloggers Network reviewed the Dangerous Book for Boys by Conn and Hal Iggulden. Being the mother of two sons I wanted to review it. Unfortunately, so did a lot of other bloggers. When The Parent Bloggers Network was looking for people to review the Daring Book for Girls by Andrea J. Buchanan and Miriam Peskowitz, I immediately said I would do it.

Even though I don't have daughters, I wanted to review it for two reasons 1) As a feminist, I'm always a little skeptical when products are marketed exclusively for boys or girls 2)Hey, I was a girl once and I was curious about what the book was all about it.

The book cover itself is pretty impressive. It's a pretty blue color, and the title is in silver sparkly material. While I appreciated that not only wasn't it in pink but it was instead in the stereotypical boy color of blue, I wondered if the sparkly image meant that the whole book would be about how to do manicures. I hoped not, and I was pleasantly surprised.

There are tons of sections on stuff that I would consider "neat" and stuff that I would consider "important" . Just to give you a few examples, there's are sections on the periodic table, math tricks (from which I learned something new!), folding a sari, negotiating a salary, giving a presentation, and something I wished I had learned about at a much younger age Robert's Rules. There are also sections on basketball, baseball and how to tie knots. Hmmm...great for pacifying a concerned feminist, but what about the more girly girls? This is after all a book marketed for girls. There are sections on friendship bracelets, slumber party games, and the intriguing guide to putting your hair up with a pencil.

I was pretty impressed by this book. It was exactly what a thorough guide for fun things for kids book should be in that there really is something for everyone. Just in case you're wondering, there are a lot of things for boys to learn about and do as well. In addition to enjoying the content, I was also impressed by the paper quality and the illustrations. You are definitely getting your money's worth.

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