Customer Reviews

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

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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!

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.

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.

...you'll probably enjoy this book, but I was disappointed there weren't any images taken directly from the book series. The new illustrations are nice though.