The Pocket Dangerous Book for Boys: Things to Know - Hardcover

Iggulden, Conn; Iggulden, Hal

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0061649937 ISBN 13: 9780061649936

Publisher: William Morrow, 2008

Synopsis

From girls to battles, from anthems to pirates to Shakespeare. The perfect pocket book of things to know for every boy from eight to eighty.

Includes Dangerous New Knowledge + Great Things to Know from The Dangerous Book for Boys

About this title

About the Author:

Despite finding time to write historical novels and The Dangerous Book for Boys, Conn Iggulden is in some ways better known as a trainer of Tollins. His Tollin troupe, Small and Mighty, are famous in Tasmania, where they often play to packed houses. Tragically, he lost his two best-known performers earlier this year. "The thing about transporting Tollins in shoe boxes," he says, "the really important thing, is to remember to put the airholes in."

Lizzy Duncan, with her trademark blue glasses, was a founding member of the Tollins in Art program, where inner-city schoolchildren are taken to the countryside by bus and encouraged to paint and observe Tollins in their natural habitats. Tollins: Explosive Tales for Children was her first illustrated book.

Lizzy's abstract paintings of Tollins are much sought after whenever they appear at Sotheby's auction house, and she is very active in promoting Tollin rights and registering them as a protected wetland species—or as a dryland species, if the weather's been good.

Conn and Lizzy's first book together, Tollins: Explosive Tales for Children, was published in 2009 to great critical acclaim—and has ensured that no one will ever mistake a Tollin for a fairy again.

Hal Iggulden is the artistic director of the Holdfast Theatre Company in Leicester, England.

About this edition

• Publisher: William Morrow
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0061649937
• ISBN 13: 9780061649936
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 272