
Learning & Activity Books
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Learning & Activity Books
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$5.99
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Published by Penguin Random House, the largest trade book publisher in the world and the house behind a great many of the books families read until they fall apart.
We buy these in small quantities for the shop, so the titles on the shelf rotate.
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Every experiment in here goes wrong. That is the design, not a defect.
Mad Scientist Mad Libs collects 21 fill in the blank stories about real life mad scientists, laboratory disasters, and the kind of research that ends with the fire alarm. Move over, Dr. Frankenstein: the lab coat goes to whoever is holding the pencil. Players call out a noun, a verb, an adjective, the blanks get filled, and the reveal turns a sober scientific procedure into something involving Frankenstein's NOUN.
It earns its keep twice a year, once every October when you need a party activity that is not a screen, and once every rainy weekend after that. Publisher age guidance 8 to 12. One pencil, no supervision required, and no way to predict what comes back out of the lab.