I remember being a kid. Other kids seemed to know “stuff.” Stuff I didn’t know. I sometimes felt like I wasn’t paying attention when instructions on “how to do stuff” were being handed out. The Daring Book for Girls would have been a great answer for my problem. The Daring Book for Girls has great instructions on how to do “stuff.” Written by Andrea J. Buchanan and Miriam Peskowitz and illustrated by Alexis Seabrook it is cock full of instructions on how to do “stuff.”

It has Rules of the Game for Basketball, Netball, Bowling, Darts and Softball. It has instructions for playing Hearts and Gin. It has instructions and great illustrations for putting your hair up with a pencil. You can learn to make a friendship bracelet. Learn how to play jacks. Learn to make a tree swing.

But in addition to instructions on how to do stuff, it also has things I would like my daughter to know; A Short History of Women Olympic Firsts, A Short History of Women Inventors and Scientists, Women Explorers, Modern Women Leaders, Queens of the Ancient World. I think it is important to highlight these types of women for our daughters.

The Daring Book for Girls is a hard back book, a rarity in this day and age of disposable books. And it is very pretty to boot. You can buy it for $14.95 at Amazon and that is a good bargain for this book. The instructions are well written and easy to read. The Daring Book for Girls could be read from beginning to end but I perused it for several weeks reading first one article and then another.

I would highly recommend this to any mother with a pre-teen or an early teen aged girl. Or I may buy a copy for my new niece for her first Christmas so she can keep a copy in her room and learn all this really great “stuff” at a young age.

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