Editions
The original edition of this book has a cover based on the cover of the Boy's Own Paper.
In June 2007, the Pocket Dangerous Book for Boys: Things to Do was published in the UK by HarperCollins. A small green book with gold lettering, it takes activities from the much larger Dangerous Book for Boys and makes them available in a much more portable format. There are a few new activities as well, such as the Bottle Rocket, and all the illustrations have been redone by two new illustrators (Andrew Ashton and Joy Gosney). Dangerous Book for Boys Yearbook came out in September 2007 in the UK, and has historical facts, seasonal activities and space to note your own adventures and with a blue cover with gold lettering. In June 2008, the Pocket Dangerous Book for Boys: Things to Know, was released and it has a yellow cover. US editions of these three will come out in summer/fall of 2008. Canadian edition of the book was released on October 20, 2008.
Also in 2007, an Australian edition of the book was published. It features Australian content such as Prime Ministers of Australia with pictures for each in color and the rules of Australian Rules Football. Brazil also published its own version also including national content, including a chapter on Monteiro Lobato instead of Shakespeare. There is also a Portuguese edition.
A sequel targeted at girls, The Daring Book for Girls, was published in late October, 2007. It was written by Andrea J. Buchanan and Miriam Peskowitz.
The Dangerous Book for Boys has partnered with science kit publisher Thames & Kosmos, which will release two kits licensed under The Dangerous Book for Boys in autumn 2009.
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“The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will, perhaps, be a Thucydides at Boston, a Xenophon at New York, and, in time, a Virgil at Mexico, and a Newton at Peru. At last, some curious traveller from Lima will visit England and give a description of the ruins of St. Paul’s, like the editions of Balbec and Palmyra.”
—Horace Walpole (1717–1797)