Tyrannosaurus rex ruled the planet for millions of years without ever once learning a noun. Your reader is about to correct that oversight, one blank at a time.

Dinosaur Mad Libs runs 21 fill in the blank stories through the whole Mesozoic: fossil digs, thunderous roars, dinosaur diets and the favorite Jurassic creatures every dinosaur obsessed kid can already name faster than you can. Somebody calls out a noun, a verb, an adjective. Somebody else writes them in without knowing the story. Then it gets read aloud, and a stegosaurus does something no paleontologist would sign off on.

The publisher grades it for ages 8 to 12, the age at which a kid can hold a favorite dinosaur fact and a favorite bad joke at the same time. Forty eight pages, one pencil, zero screens, and a car ride that suddenly goes quicker than expected.