The Double-Daring Book for Girls (Hardcover)

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The eagerly anticipated follow-up to the bestselling phenomenon The Daring Book for Girls is an even more daring guide to everything from making a raft to learning how to play football to the art of the Japanese Tea ceremony. This second volume, with all new original material, promises to be even more of a daring adventure than the first. Girls will learn how to surf, get horseback riding tips, make a labyrinth, find out about April Fool’s Day history and pranks, how to organize a croquet tournament, find out about cowgirls, the Nobel Prize, being a detective and much more! Just as packed with creative and exciting material as the original, but twice as fun, this book will be beloved by all Daring fans everywhere!

About the Author

Miriam Peskowitz has been a camp counselor, an historian, a blogger, a musician, a professor, and is the author of many books, including The Truth Behind the Mommy Wars. Miriam is the mother of two girls, including an almost-eleven-year-old who climbs trees, capsizes small boats, and rides her pastel blue bike around the neighborhood (and a three-year-old who is learning to be daring). Miriam kayaks in summer, snowshoes in winter, and loves writing the Daring Books for Girls. She is super-excited about the latest addition: The Double-Daring Book for Girls.

Andrea J. Buchanan is a writer living in Philadelphia. In addition to her latest book, The Double-Daring Book For Girls (HarperCollins), she is the author of the New York Times bestselling The Daring Book For Girls, The Pocket Daring Book For Girls: Things To Do, and The Pocket Daring Book For Girls: Wisdom and Wonder, along with Miriam Peskowitz. She is also the author of Mother Shock: Loving Every (Other) Minute of It and the editor of three anthologies. She is the mother of a daughter and a son, both of whom are equally daring.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 288 pages
• Publisher: William Morrow (March 24, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 006174879X
• ISBN-13: 978-0061748790
• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 7.4 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #17,576 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Up-to-date yet old-fashioned adventures!, April 17, 2009

By	Karla Cook - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

My daughters have been poring over this book ever since it came in the mail a few days ago. My older daughter received the first book for Christmas, and at first glance wasn't too impressed. But I knew what would happen... and sure enough, it did! A few days later she came carrying it into me with her fingers in several pages. "Mom, did you see what is in this book?! I had no idea that's what this was!!"

So when the sequel came in the mail this week, she immediately nabbed it! She likes the cover colors better on this one... and the fact that it's all-new information. She's already been plotting out all the things she wants to try this summer!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Everything you forgot that you needed to know -- and more!, July 6, 2009

By	Leah - See all my reviews

How can you not like a book that tells you how to dye your hair with Kool-Aid, how to make a lava lamp, how to perform a Japanese Tea Ceremony, what the meaning of courage is, how to catch a fish, how to run a magazine, how to be a private eye, how to become President of the United States, all about the Underground Railroad, how to dance the Cotton-Eyed Joe, how to shoot pool, how to say no (and how to say yes), and -- for pete's sake -- how to run away and join the circus. And that's less than 10% of the topics in the book. The information in here is terribly important, it is positively invaluable lore and instruction.

I defy anyone to pick up this book and tell me that they made it through reading the Table of Contents without smiling, reminiscing, and also being intrigued. It's a seemingly random collection of really neat stuff that you find you are thrilled someone had the time, energy and brains to actually document. It's the stuff that's told around the campfires, discussed over dinner tables, and taught over sidewalk chalk in the driveway.

Get it for your daughter, get it for your niece, or get it for yourself. It makes a wonderful addition to any girl's book collection, and when you give it was a gift, you will know that you've struck gold.

5.0 out of 5 stars Double Daring Kool-Aid ThrowDown!, June 14, 2009

By	Kim Fritz "Kimmy Lou Who's Musings" (On Line And Doin' Fine) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

It's summer, and we're getting creative here at our house - we are thoroughly enjoying the latest and greatest by Andrea Buchanan and Miriam Peskowitz, The Double-Daring Book for Girls. It's perfect for my daughter - and her friends...chock full of fun, no-holds-barred ideas and opportunities for girls to explore. I highly recommend it for every family...

The book is ideal for a hot, summer day to learn about how to start a mother-daughter book club, create paper beads, play dominoes, or even...how to run away and join the circus!!! We've already started planning out our summer evenings and weekends to include many of the amazing activities in this incredible book....

Here's our thrown down challenge

Let's all highlight our hair with Kool-Aid!! (yes, you are reading this correctly, my friend...pull out those 25 cent packages and get colorful!!!) Get silly and creative with your special girl - it's a fun time sharing a wickedly outrageous beauty makeover without a big commitment. We can't wait to tell our friends, "Does she, or doesn't she? Only Mr. Kool-Aid knows for sure!"

My daughter I are headed to the pantry to pick out our flavors...ugh, colors....to jazz out our "do"...what color are you going to try?