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.
Every great book reminds us that we're all alone in the world. At
least this one provides us with the means to entertain ourselves
while we're here.
It's what you'd get if you crossed the Boy Scout Handbook with The
Anarchist's Cookbook, and it's definitely the wildest how-to manual
I've seen this year.
This classic 1958 guide reintroduces kids to those natural urges
that have to turn random objects into crazy great stuff...Readers
will love that everything in this book was invented by kids and
passed along by kids, that nothing costs money and that each of the
projects is a seat-of-the-pants creation.
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