UNBORED ADVENTURE
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October 6, 2015
Do you have an 8-to-13-year-old in your life? Do you worry about how much time he or she spends indoors and glued to screens? Then check out UNBORED ADVENTURE, published by Bloomsbury today.
HILOBROW’s Josh Glenn is co-author, with Elizabeth Foy Larsen, of UNBORED ADVENTURE. This is the second spinoff from their popular 2012 family activities guide, UNBORED. Over 50,000 copies of UNBORED have been sold — not to mention UK and Japanese editions! — and, so far, over 15,000 copies of the first series spinoff, UNBORED GAMES (which was published in October 2014).
As with all the UNBORED books, UNBORED Adventure was designed and art-directed by Tony Leone (of Tony Leone Design) and richly illustrated by Mister Reusch and Heather Kasunick. Chris Piascik provided decorations, too.
In the book’s 176 full-color pages, you’ll find: adventure apps, adventure gear, adventure skills (from building a fire to open-mindedness), adventure-building projects (e.g., bean shooter, box kite, ghillie poncho, paracord bracelet, upcycled raft), indoor adventures (e.g., sewing your own ditty bag, survival origami), instant adventures, and outdoor adventures (from the pervasive game Assassin to fire-pit recipes to shootin’ craps).
PLUS: Expert essays by adventurer Chris Spurgeon, Bike Snob author BikeSnobNYC, BEN AND BIRDY blogger Catherine Newman, and Kitchen Science Lab for Kids author Liz Lee Heinecke; Best Ever lists (e.g., Dystopian Sci-Fi, Outdoor Adventure Movies); Secret History Comics by Mister Reusch and Heather Kasunick (e.g., Treehouses, Female Explorers, Bicycles); Q&As with Joshua Foer and Dylan Thuras of Atlas Obscura, Playborhood author Mike Lanza, urban biking activist Elly Blue, and Cloudspotting author Gavin Pretor-Pinney; Train Your Grownup features (e.g., Send You Outside, Climb Trees, Let You Roam, Prep for Adventure); and classic lit excerpts (e.g., The Wouldbegoods, Gulliver’s Travels, The Swiss Family Robinson). Wow!
Boston-area families, please join the authors at Brookline Booksmith on October 17, at 2 pm, for the book’s official launch event!
PS: In June, the brainy toy and game company MindWare debuted UNBORED’s first-ever activity kits: UNBORED Disguises and UNBORED Treasure Hunt. They’re selling like hotcakes!