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Steven Caney's Kids' America

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This is a favorite from my childhood. My brother and I pored over its pages in search of games to play, things to build, art, or scary stories. Each section links the activities to American history or how this is a part of American life. A great resource for home schoolers.

This book is a great resource for the "all american" crafts. The little history that the book gives on each craft is a great learning tool for childen of all ages. I highly recommend this book to anyone who works with children from the sunday school teacher to the scout leader.

Make Cheese? Make and use a quill pen? Learn to do handwriting analysis? A thick repository of kid curious topics that makes a great source for anyone who shares the spirit of the young adolescent. I have used this book as a resource for almost twenty years. Makes a great gift for that aspiring student teacher!

Kids America has served as a great resource in my classroom for almost twenty years. Kid curious topics like handwriting anaylsis, candle making, crafts of all sorts and even how to make cheese are among hundreds of just fun things to do. I highly recommend it

I received this as a birthday present when I was 10 years old in 1980, and it was my FAVORITE BOOK. I pored over it hour after hour and was just fascinated by everything in it. I still have that copy (which is completely identical to the one being sold today), and it is the most tattered thing imaginable. A couple years ago I bought another copy simply to have a clean version of it, but I still can't do away with the 25 year old copy I have, simply for the sake of sentimentality. I have now bought well over 10 copies of this and have given one to everyone I know. I give it as a gift to older children (7 and older), and to friends that I have who work with children (nannies/teachers). I can't wait until my daughter is old enough to enjoy this book herself. It is truly one of the best books for children of all time.

I was a little girl growing up in Japan, and took this book out of our school library every week for about three years. I pored over the stories, crafts and fun and loved every minute of it. I hope you love it as much as I did. I was eventually given a copy by a librarian friend of mine, and although it's in rough shape I treasure it!

Like other reviewers, I received this book as a child and pored over every page (and did most of the projects) a hundred times! I'm now in my mid-thirties and will be introducing my kids to this classic. Every page was clearly and simply illustrated, the instructions were easy to follow, and it was just a whole lot of fun. Most of all, it stoked a curiosity and a thirst for this kind of hands-on learning. This is truly an essential title, even (or maybe especially) for people who do not have children of their own - you can be a super-cool aunt/uncle/grandparent/neighbor if you whip this one out and get a fun project started. And don't let the suggested age range fool you - I remember completely loving this book long past eight years old.

Someone gave me this book when I was 8 (I am now 33) and I can remember very well all the cool things it offers. It shows kids how to make those puffy hats the ladies wore in the 1700's (I really liked that), it has sections on handwriting analysis and palmistry and TONS of other really interesting, unique activities for kids. This book begins with the premise that kids are intelligent and do not need to be wowed by a bunch of commercial nonsense to be entertained. I recommend it VERY highly -- your kids will take parts of "Kids' America" with them for the rest of their lives.

My daughter loved the crafts in this book as a fourth grader. Later she used the rope making project for a college speech class demonstration. One of her classmates stopped her after class and asked Sherri to make a rope for her. Next week I'll be using the same craft for MY college speech class demonstration.

I was given this book when I was a kid(um teen years ago) I still have the original but after years of use and love it was falling apart and I did not want it to get totally destroyed so I bought a replacement for my son. This book is such a fun book for a kid. It has so many ideas and information in it. It will keep them busy for hours.