The Official Nancy Drew Handbook: Skills, Tips, and Life Lessons from Everyone's Favorite Girl Detective [Hardcover]

Penny Warner (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1, 2007

Girl Detectives—get your roadsters in gear!
 
Perfectly coiffed, with Titian hair to die for, an ever-adoring fiancé, and the best sidekicks a girl could want, Nancy Drew is still finding clues, escaping from villains, solving mysteries, and saving the day—all without mussing those gorgeous tresses.
 
And now, so can you: The Official Nancy Drew® Handbook will teach you how to live the Nancy life, with tips on fashion and beauty, romance and relationships, survival, sleuthing, and
success. Learn:
 
     •  How to Locate a Secret Passageway
     •  How to Tell a Good Guy from a Bad Guy
     •  How to Tap Out a Morse Code Message with Your High-Heeled Shoes
     •  How to Manage Your Hair When the Convertible Top Is Down
     •  How to Thwart a Kidnapping
     •  How to Write SOS Backward with Lipstick
 
Girl Detectives need look no further to learn the life lessons of a super sleuth!

Editorial Reviews

Review

“Growing up, girl detective Nancy Drew kept us stylishly entertained with her keen mystery solving skills, loyal best friends and classic wardrobe. Now she can help you do the same with the book The Official Nancy Drew Handbook.”—McClatchy-Tribune News Service
 
“Most girls (and quite possibly some boys) who have ever read a Nancy Drew mystery—and Nancy has been solving them for 77 years, so that is a lot of readers—has probably thought at least once: ‘Wouldn’t it be great to be as smart as Nancy?’ Well, yes, it would be. And now there is a book to help girls of all ages (and quite possibly some boys) achieve that goal.”—The Hartford Courant

About the Author

Penny Warner has written more than 40 books, including six mysteries in the award-winning Connor Westphal series. She lives in Danville, California.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 176 pages
• Publisher: Quirk Books; 1St Edition edition (October 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1594741948
• ISBN-13: 978-1594741944
• Product Dimensions: 4.8 x 0.7 x 7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #469,336 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great book!, January 13, 2009

By 

Eileen Leahy Preston "The Rabid Reader" (Falmouth, MA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Official Nancy Drew Handbook: Skills, Tips, and Life Lessons from Everyone's Favorite Girl Detective (Hardcover)

Read this with your daughter - you will get some laughs with her and also teach some nice lessons about preparedness, quick thinking, don't panic but also get a chance to giggle about the silly things like keeping your hair in place while thwarting a kidnapping. For any girl interested in Nancy Drew this is a super, super addition!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars lots of fun for girls, October 24, 2008

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Cathe Fein Olson "Avid reader and writer" (curled up with a book) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Official Nancy Drew Handbook: Skills, Tips, and Life Lessons from Everyone's Favorite Girl Detective (Hardcover)

I gave this book to my 12 year old niece and minutes later overheard her and her friends giggling away. If want to know how to apply lipstick while engaging in a high-speed car chase, look stylish while digging up dead bodies, or escape from the bad guys without messing up your hair, you'll love this book.

6 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Memories from a Happy Time, May 27, 2010

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Joseph E Consolmagno - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Official Nancy Drew Handbook: Skills, Tips, and Life Lessons from Everyone's Favorite Girl Detective (Hardcover)

I recently received an e-mail from Amazon.com inviting me to review "The Official Nancy Drew Handbook" and "Nancy Drew's Guide to Life". Actually, I think, it was more of a challenge to explain why a 92-year-old geezer would be buying a couple of books culling bits of wisdom from a popular girls' book series of generations past. The answer is a vision of a serious little girl, reading in a quiet corner about life in simpler times, and self-reliance, and courage. She's the mother of three grown men now, twin grandchildren, contemplating retirement from a lifetime of teaching. She's visiting us next month and I want to surprise her. And hear her laugh.