How to Do Nothing with Nobody All Alone By Yourself

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8vo, 132pp. Illustrated in black & white. Hardcover with dustjacket, in excellent condition. Very minor wear. Almost like new. N° de ref. de la librería 008577

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The classic guidebook to everything from paper airplanes to spool tanks to slingshots is back in print, and is as fun, inventive, and charming as ever.

How to Do Nothing literally tells "how to do nothing with nobody all alone by yourself"?real things, fascinating things, the things that you did when you were a kid, or your parents did when they were kids. This is a book to free your kid from video games for a few hours, a handbook on the avoidance of boredom, a primer on the uses of solitude, a child's declaration of independence. If you don't remember how to make a spool tank, what to do with an old umbrella, whether "pennies" come before or after "spank the baby" in mumbly-peg, or how to make rubber-band guns, slings, or clamshell bracelets, it's OK because Robert Paul Smith has collected all of this and more in How to Do Nothing. It's a book for kids, but parents are not prohibited from reading it.

Biografía del autor: Robert Paul Smith is the author of the best-selling Where Did You Go? Out. What Did You Do? Nothing. and of the novels So It Doesn?t Whistle, The Journey, Because of My Love, and The Time and the Place. Smith was born in Brooklyn, grew up in Mount Vernon, New York, and graduated from Columbia College in 1936. He worked as a writer with CBS Radio.

Paul Collins is a writer specializing in history, memoir, and unusual antiquarian literature. His nine books have been translated into eleven languages, and include Sixpence House: Lost in a Town of Books (2003) and The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime That Scandalized a City & Sparked the Tabloid Wars (2011). Collins lives in Oregon, where he is chair and professor of English at Portland State University.

Librería: Black Letter Books, LLC.
Dirección: Stillwater, MN, Estados Unidos de America

Librería en AbeBooks desde: 2 de noviembre de 2015
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Descripción de la librería: Black Letter Books is a real brick & mortar bookshop dedicated to providing discerning readers and collectors with good, classic, books in traditional subject areas. Our charming open shop is located on Main Street in downtown Stillwater, Minnesota, within easy walking distance of three other open bookstores, five antique malls and a variety of other shopping and dining, all situated along the beautiful St. Croix River.