Being a kid is already absurd. This book just writes it down and lets the kids pick the words.

Kid Libs Mad Libs aims its 21 fill in the blank stories squarely at the daily grind of childhood: classrooms, homework, overbearing parents, and hard won playground glory. The field trip goes somewhere that is technically a place. The parent says something no parent has ever said. Read the finished page out loud at the dinner table and watch who laughs hardest, because it is usually the person who supplied the worst word.

The publisher grades it for ages 8 to 12, the stretch where a kid is fluent enough in the school day to find it funny. Forty eight pages of grammar practice that no child will ever accuse you of assigning.