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The Dangerous Book for Boys Yearbook

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I love this whole series. The yearbook is for the older boy just so you know but my 5 year old strangely loves this book. It is a world history book that focuses on important events that happen on each day of the year. He likes to look up people's birthdays and then I read what happened on that day. It is for the 10+ boy and make sure they like history.

How many people still use printed datebooks to record their appointments or daily comments? And how many of those would like something this large and unwieldy? And how many of those would like as little space as this provides for making entries: 9 or so lines of 2 3/4 inches length per day on average?

Most dates are crammed two to a page; only the occasional for some reason special day has an entire page to itself. Such single page days usually (but not always) offer about double the writing space, finally offering room for a decent sized daily diary entry. Of course if this practice had been followed throughout, the book would have been almost twice as long (and almost twice as thick)!

All of which is just too bad, because after going through it day by day for the last year, I found the daily, monthly, and seasonal factoids invariably interesting and occasionally fascinating. They are very British, of course; no attempt has been made, as was done with the rest of the series: The Dangerous Book for Boys, The Pocket Dangerous Book for Boys: Things to Do, The Pocket Dangerous Book for Boys: Things to Know, and The Dangerous Book of Heroes, to produce volumes tailored for particular countries, which given the lack of passion displayed in the last Americanized book listed, might be just as well. At least the Brothers Iggulden care deeply about the contents of THIS book, and it shows.