One hundred puzzles, all of them run by chickens. Rudy and Buttercup take kids straight through the barnyard on a trail of chicken-wire mazes, egg-collecting codes, word searches, picture puzzles, tongue twisters and jokes bad enough to be repeated at dinner for a week.

It is the rare activity book that earns its second and third pass: no screens, no batteries, no app, just a pencil and a kid who suddenly has somewhere to be. Storey built it for ages six to nine, which makes it the thing you hand over in the back seat, at the restaurant table, or on the fourth straight day of rain.