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Sunday, June 1st, 2008
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1:37p - Book aimed at getting kids outdoors without ignoring girls!
Yesterday, we received a reader for a book called 'How to Eat a Huhu Grub', by Nick and Conrad Turzynski. It's an outdoorsy type book, with advice about bush survival and knife upkeep, guides to identifying native birds, trees, and fish, and activities like bottle rockets and making paper from sheep dung. The publisher's description calls it a Kiwi version of 'The Dangerous Book for Boys' but for me it has a clear advantage above being New Zealand-specific: it's not gendered.
It is such a nice change, after such titles as 'The Outdoors Book for Adventurous Chaps' and 'Boy Mechanic' to have a book that could've gone the boys-only route but didn't. Asides from being fun, it also turns out that things like knife care really are useful to know. Even if the most commonly used component on my leatherman is the file...
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