"New York Times Best-seller

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."