BY KAREN HELLER INQUIRER COLUMNIST Could there be a more brilliant title than The Dangerous Book for Boys? This handsome volume, authored by brothers Conn and Hal Iggulden, proffers advice on such essentials as spiders, poker, invisible ink, skinning a rabbit and making a go-cart, things every boy’s father knew as a boy. OK, let’s not kid ourselves here. Every boy’s grandfather.
A phenomenon in the authors’ native England where it was published a year ago, Dangerous was named British Book of the Year, with more than half a million copies in print. Since its May debut on these shores, the retro manual, which has a $25 list price, has sold 211,000 copies. It crests Publishers Weekly’s best-seller list, outselling Reagan, Gore, Diana, Hillary, Einstein and, well, God.
INQUIRER: Danger, Danger Will Robinson!