Susan: I've always liked reference books (I am, after all a librarian). When I was growing up, one of my favorite books was the Girl Guides Handbook (when we were in Canada) & later the Girl Scouts Handbook. I went back & read those even after I stopped doing the scouting thing. They were nice reference for all sorts of random things that struck my fancy & I could sit down & read a little bit then wander off to play & use what I just learned about (or not).
The Daring Book for Girls is very reminiscent of those books for me... and so much more. The authors have done a great job of covering all sorts of interesting things from princess & queens to Robert's Rules of Order, the origins of basketball & softball, how to read palms, & all sorts of other things. There's something here to appeal to almost every girl. Even if everything doesn't appeal, at least it provides exposure -- I wish I'd known about Robert's Rules of Order before my second year of college. In retrospect, it seems like something I should have come across before then one way or another, but somehow I managed to be completely oblivious.
