{"product_id":"american-girls-handy-book-how-to-amuse-yourself-and-others","title":"American Girls Handy Book: How to Amuse Yourself and Others","description":"Explore, hike, discover, be crafty and have fun with friends or alone, indoors or outside!\nWritten for children in 1893, and valuable for both kids and adults today, here's a magical cornucopia of projects, devices, toys, gifts, dolls, recipes, decorations, perfumes, wax and clay modeling, oil and water-color painting and games, all with clear and practical directions for how to make and play them.\nVintage Americana by the Beard sisters, two of the founders of the girls scouting movement (when they weren't campaigning for women’s rights). As Anne M. Boylan writes in her foreword, “Healthy and spirited, the American Girl thinks nothing of taking a ten-mile ‘romp’ through woods and fields with a group of friends, and collects flowers and leaves for preservation or presentation to friends and relations.\nAbove all, however, the Beards’ girl is handy. She can make a hat rack, a screen, or a bookshelf; fashion a macrame hammock or a cornhusk doll; and draw, paint, sculpt, or decorate a room…By emphasizing what girls can do, The American Girl's Handy Book presents a portrait of girlhood that is vigorous, active, and full of possibilities.”\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0879236663\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.0879236663.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Adelia Beard|Lina Beard\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly!  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41694549508154,"sku":"DBV.0879236663.G","price":8.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/0879236663-0.jpg?v=1790219006","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/american-girls-handy-book-how-to-amuse-yourself-and-others","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}