{"id":8201,"date":"2011-02-28T07:38:32","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T11:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=8201"},"modified":"2011-02-14T12:37:19","modified_gmt":"2011-02-14T16:37:19","slug":"a-young-wizards-handbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=8201","title":{"rendered":"A Young Wizard\u2019s Handbook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/bookcover-117x150.jpg\" alt=\"How to Trap a Zombie\" title=\"How to Trap a Zombie\" width=\"117\" height=\"150\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>Oh, wow; where was <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Zombie-Vampire-Activities-Monster-Hunters\/dp\/0786955481\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&#038;tag=shadmano-20&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1284992593&#038;sr=1-1\n\">this book<\/a> when <b>I<\/b> was ten years old?<\/p>\n<p>A.R. Rotruck used to have grand imaginary adventures when she was a child, with the help of props she made herself.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When she wasn\u2019t reading, the ten-year-old me (we\u2019ll call her \u201cTamie\u201d) spent a lot of time playing in the woods and making crafts.  For all the books she read, she never found one that would help with this particular hobby.  Most of Tamie\u2019s ramblings involved imagining various fantasy scenarios; grand quests and adventures.  Tamie made a burlap sack to carry into the woods because it seemed like something the fantasy version of Tamie (maybe call her Fatamie?  No, that\u2019s getting a bit ridiculous.) would carry.  It was bulky and scratchy, but it also, to Tamie\u2019s ten-year-old brain, seemed authentic.  Tamie would cobble together bits and pieces of crafts from books on Native American and colonial\/pioneer folk art.  Tamily only had one children\u2019s book in this genre; the rest of the crafts were far too advanced for a ten-year-old.  With Young Wizards Handbook, I wanted to write a book for the children like Tamie: fantasy fans who want to make things to help their imagination come alive with physical tools.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can read the rest of the &#8220;big idea&#8221; behind her book <a href=\"http:\/\/whatever.scalzi.com\/2010\/09\/17\/the-big-idea-a-r-rotruck\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I love this idea.  I want to go back in time and give myself a copy.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s great that the projects are both age-appropriate and engaging: It not only encourages imagination, it sounds like a great crafting primer for kids.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve got a young adventurer who yearns to track vampires to their lair or hobnob with hobgoblins, this would be an excellent gift.  (Shadowboy will be receiving one shortly.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, wow; where was this book when I was ten years old? A.R. Rotruck used to have grand imaginary adventures when she was a child, with the help of props she made herself. When she wasn\u2019t reading, the ten-year-old me (we\u2019ll call her \u201cTamie\u201d) spent a lot of time playing in the woods and making [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bittens","category-needful-things"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8201"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10124,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8201\/revisions\/10124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}