New York Times best seller 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.
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"I received this book for my birthday when I was a child. I found it a wonderfully imaginative book with marvellous illustrations by Rold Harris! " — Donald (5 out of 5 stars)
"I received this book for my birthday when I was a child. I found it a wonderfully imaginative book with marvellous illustrations by Rold Harris! "
" I was given this book as a kid and it provided me hours of enjoyment. "
" This book opens "[i:]f things were as they should be another kid would be telling you how to do these things..." Yep. Learn 'em from another kid. They're boring to read about. "
" I thought there would be more pictures, but it is cool that the ones in there are hand-drawn. And there are some fun things for kids to do. My son will have to do nothing with an adult until he is old enough to read on his own. "
" I received this book for my birthday when I was a child. I found it a wonderfully imaginative book with marvellous illustrations by Rold Harris! "
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