Ultimate Guide to Collecting

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 109 pages
• Published by: Prufrock Press June 2005
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 1593630115
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-1593630119
• Book Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.8 x 0.4 inches
• Weighs: 8 ounces

Product Description
It starts small. You pick up an inexpensive souvenir on a family vacation as a way to document and remember the event. Soon, you begin to accumulate similar items on other excursions--before you know it--you have a collection! Marbles, thimbles, postcards, matchbooks, magnets, stickers, figurines, coins, stamps, dolls, and more--a collection can be anything that you bring together into a group. There is no limit to what you can collect. Look around you, perhaps you have a collection and aren't even aware of it. The Ultimate Guide to Collecting is a practical, hands-on guide for young people interested in starting a new collection or expanding their current collection. The book includes tips on how to start, grow, organize, maintain, and display a collection. The Ultimate Guide to Collecting offers how-to advice for anyone interested in making collecting an exciting learning experience.

The book also features advice and insight from young people involved in collecting cards, coins, dolls and models, insects, memorabilia, rocks and fossils, and stamps who share their experiences and offer advice about the collections process. This book is also filled with great resources such as Web sites, resource books, and a collection journal to help in the acquisition and maintenance of a collection.

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Reader Reviews
Professional educators Frances Karnes and Kristen Stephens present The Ultimate Guide To Collecting: A Hands-On Guide for Young People, a straightforward introduction to adopting a hobby intended for young adults. Chapters cover the basics of collecting, including how to keep a collection journal or safely display one's collection. Common types of collections discussed are sports cards and postcards (collectible card games are not discussed though), stamps, coins, fossils, dolls, memorabilia, insects and more. Individual kids who enjoy their collections speak about their hobbies in their own words, adding a personal touch to this fun introduction to a satisfying and productive hobby.