Ten complete Mad Libs books in one fat, happy treasury: 480 oversize pages of fill in the blank mayhem. Shark Attack!, Unidentified Flying Mad Libs, Presidential Mad Libs, Meow Libs, Dog Ate My Mad Libs, Mad Scientist Mad Libs and more, all waiting for the perfect noun to ruin them beautifully.

The formula has not changed since 1958 because it does not need to: one player asks for verbs, nouns and adjectives, everyone shouts increasingly poor choices, and the finished story gets read aloud to a room that is already laughing. The oversize pages make the sharing part easy, and along the way players are quietly drilling parts of speech, which teachers have forgiven Mad Libs for decades.

At this size it covers an entire summer of road trips, sleepovers, camp bunks and rained out afternoons. Best for ages 8 to 12, plus every adult who claims to be above it and then asks for the next round.