Customer Reviews

The Amazing Book of Paper Boats: 18 Boats to Fold and Float

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I bought this book for my 9 year-old son as a birthday gift. I thought he would enjoy it since he has recently become interested in model making. The Amazing Book of Paper Boats contains interesting information about each of the boats featured in the book, but it's the model boats themselves that are truly amazing. They are printed on waterproof paper, so once you make them they actually float! My son had no trouble assembling the simpler boats, like the speed boat and the sail boat, and once he did he had a blast playing with them in the sink and tub. While the complex boats are more challenging, the book is a lot of fun and perfect for a rainy day. Highly recommended.

This book kept my husband busy for two months! He made all of the boats and we displayed them in our bookshelf. The book goes in order from easiest to hardest, and each boat has a nice written description about it. This would make a wonderful holiday present!

Great book for gift to Brother-in-law that has everything...something he's going to do with his Grandson!!

This is definatley not a book for novices. I bought this book for my 13 year old son for the Iron Clad models to be built for a school project. We found the ships extremely difficult to make. The book recommended model cement for plastic models to glue the ships with. We tried 3 different kinds of plastic model cement and the glue would not dry. Our chubby fingers made it impossible to work with the smaller pieces of the ships. Our MONITOR looked so awful we chucked the entire idea of using the paper models and he made his project with Legos. In the end, I felt this book was a total waste of money from the modeling aspect. However the information provided in the book on each of the 18 boats was very good. Overall was a good book to read, but the models were a flop.