Little Know-How Book, the Everything You Need: To Know to Get by in Life from Changing a Tire to Figuring a Tip to Tying Your S Hoes

by Bob Scher

Book Overview

An entertaining how-to-do-it book filled with practical advice on mastering more than 70 of life's most essential skills, ranging from the time-saving to the potentially life-saving. 40 line drawings.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0517588110
• ISBN13: 9780517588116
• Release Date: September 1993
• Publisher: Harmony
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 7.1"

Customer Reviews

The Best-Case Scenario Book

Like the very successful book that tells you what to do when your life is in sudden danger, The Little Know-How Book gives simple, step-by-step instructions for sixty-eight how-to scenarios, only this one's got you covered in the How to Make Friends With Almost Any Dog and How to Tie a Tie and How to Understand Football departments. From the unbelievably practical (How to Change a Tire) to the fascinatingly silly (The Wonderful World of Tidal Creatures), Bob Scher breaks everything down to a few simple, easy-to-follow steps with great illustrations by Richard Sala. What's wonderful about this book is that while the subject matter is undeniably practical, you'll read it simply because it's interesting, humorous, and very well-written, whether you ever use the advice or not. I'll agree with a previous reviewer and say that its only shortcoming is that it's too short; perhaps the author would consider a Volume 2. An excellent gift for college graduates and for yourself, The Little Know-How Book should be required reading for any newly independent adult.

Woohoo! Thanks Bob!

I bought this book for my sister for Christmas and decided to take a peek in it before I wrapped it. I ended up keeping it for myself. Not only are the things truly need to know things, but the book is so well-written and wonderfully humourous, I can't help but recommend it.

Good For Everything... Almost

The only way to improve on this book would be to make it longer. Scher's style makes things incredibly easy to understand, and all of the items are things you need to know, unlike the highly entertaining but largely superfluous How to Hold a Crocodile (by The Diagram Group) or any of the Reader's Digest how-to manuals that are packed with more than anyone will ever need. Heck, Bob Scher even gives you "Directions for Screwing"! Who could possibly resist that?