Every kid has an animal phase, and this book was built for it. Animals, Animals, Animals! Mad Libs Junior is 21 fill in the blank stories devoted to the whole kingdom: favorite pets, farm animals, wild animals, what they eat, and where they live.

The Junior format makes it genuinely playable at ages 5 to 8. Each story comes with its own word bank keyed to simple symbols, so a beginning reader can pick words without knowing what an adjective is, and the story still comes out gloriously wrong. A leopard that lives in the bathtub and eats spaghetti is exactly the point.

A big 48 page paperback for after school, road trips and rainy weekends, quietly teaching reading and grammar while everybody argues about which animal is funniest.