Publisher Ellie Berger says the books overlap but cater to the differences in boys’ and girls’ interests. For example, advice to boys is: How to get out of quicksand. For girls: How to make your own luxury bubble bath.

Tom Dwyer, a book buyer for Borders, says The Dangerous Book for Boys is “neither politically correct nor politically incorrect.” He found its advice about girls (“It is important to listen”) “charming.”

My only response is you have got to me sh*tting me. If my parents had given me a book on how to make bubble bath when my brother got one about skipping rocks and skinning rabbits and blowing things up, I’d have used it to demonstrate that I knew how to build a fire!