{"product_id":"9780982504840","title":"How to Do Nothing with Nobody All Alone by Yourself: A Timeless Activity Guide to Self-Reliant Play and Joyful Solitude","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe classic guidebook to everything from paper airplanes to spool tanks to slingshots is back in print, and is as fun, inventive, and charming as ever.\u003c\/p\u003e How to Do Nothing literally tells \"how to do nothing with nobody all alone by yourself\"—real things, fascinating things, the things that you did when you were a kid, or your parents did when they were kids. This is a book to free your kid from video games for a few hours, a handbook on the avoidance of boredom, a primer on the uses of solitude, a child's declaration of independence. If you don't remember how to make a spool tank, what to do with an old umbrella, whether \"pennies\" come before or after \"spank the baby\" in mumbly-peg, or how to make rubber-band guns, slings, or clamshell bracelets, it's OK because Robert Paul Smith has collected all of this and more in How to Do Nothing. It's a book for kids, but parents are not prohibited from reading it.","brand":"Tin House Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47072481575152,"sku":"9780982504840","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780982504840_p0.jpg?v=1769914119","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780982504840","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}