SM Reading List

[Scoutingmama 10]

 

I was just on Kudu's great site and he recommends/had links to so many titles it is hard to chose. I know some of you have been scouting a long time. What books have influenced you the most?

 

What are your favorite titles to read in regards to scouting, being a SM, boy leadership, the whole scouting experience?

 

Dawn

 

[Bob White 20]

How to listen so that kids will talk & Talk so that kids will listen-

Faber and Mazlish

 

 

The Boy Scout Handbook

 

 

The One-Minute Manager Meets the Monkey

Blanchard

 

[Kudu 186]

Thanks

 

By far the "how-to" book with the most explosive impact on the history of Scouting was William "Green Bar Bill" Hillcourt's 1,150 page third edition of the BSA Handbook for Scoutmasters.

 

You can still find used copies of this two-volume masterpiece for less than $10 per volume at AddAll. See:

 

http://tinyurl.com/5sjvz3

 

To find the correct edition, look for "Volume 1" or "Volume 2" in the description.

 

The 1940s printings of Volume 1 were expanded (page 208 became pages 208i - 208xvi) to include "Intensive Training in the Green Bar Patrol."

 

This position-specific "intensive" Patrol Leader training course (adapted to Baden-Powell's Patrol System) are still used in countries all over the world, from Ireland to Australia. See:

 

http://kudu.net/patrol/green_bar/index.htm

 

Kudu

 

 

[Scoutingmama 10]

Thank you Kudu,

I ordered both for DH for Father's Day.

 

Bob, I am going to check out that Faber and Mazlish book.

 

Thanks for taking the time to make the suggestions gentlemen!