The holidays mean LOTS of great
gifts for the kiddos and LOTS of time spent around the table, breaking bread
with loved ones. Uncle John's For Kids Only is here to help you survive the holiday with some keep them busy ideas!
First launched in 2002, the Uncle
John's For Kids Only series
is designed for young trivia fans, infomaniacs and reluctant readers. The
latest installment in this series is TOTALLY
QUACKED (ages 8+)
-- 288 pages packed with strange science, weird news, obscure history, odd
sports, and the interesting origins of everyday things. Special to this
edition: amazing animal quack-ups, history’s biggest quacks, ducky
weather, fine feathered friends, quacky fashion, and things that are “Just
Ducky” (which could mean really good or…soaking wet). It's also perfectly
sized to make an excellent stocking stuffer:).
And now, two MUST-HAVES for
keeping hungry young diners from gnawing off the table legs at those extra long holiday meals...feed their brains
with Uncle John's Riddle Me Timbers! and Magic Cupcake Placemats (ages
6+). Each cleverly themed tear-off sheet in
these 36-page placemat pads is filled with brain-building activities: a
"Ship Shape" puzzler, a "Fairy Pie" maze, brainteasers,
jokes, and weird facts, noodle-while-you-doodle activities and
even Polly-Wanna-Doku and Wand-Doku (Sudoku with pictures!).
To Buy:
To Buy:
Magic Cupcake Placemats can be
purchased here: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/uncle-johns-magic-cupcake-bathroom-readers-institute/1118762436?ean=9781626862876
* Riddle Me Timbers! Placemats can
be purchased here: http://www.amazon.com/Uncle-Johns-Riddle-Timbers-Placemats/dp/1626862885
* Totally Quacked can be purchased here: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/uncle-johns-totally-quacked-bathroom-reader-for-kids-only-bathroom-readers-institute/1117926138?ean=9781626861756
The 411 by Maria and the Kids:
We love activity books. We do a lot of waiting doctor's, dentist, library, art club, one of us is always doing something which means the others are always waiting. While we love our Kindle and smartphone I am trying to get the kids more and more unplugged and these books are great for that.
The Uncle John's Riddle Me Timbers! and Magic Cupcake Placemate books are great because you can use them anytime including taking them with you wherever, grandma, the dinner, even the doc's office. We can bring the whole book or tear sheets out as you need them. The kids love that there are so many different activities. Goddess loves mazes and word search puzzles and Handsome loves brain teasers and facts as well as word search puzzels.
We found so many that we are trying not to just run through the book too quickly and save them for what they are intended for.
The TOTALLY
QUACKED Bathroom Reader for Kids! is honestly the best. There are so many amazing reads inside. We love the Road Trip game suggestions, Pack My Lunch which includes what kids in other countries eat for lunch, a story called Dumb Selfies where people took selfies implicating themselves in all stupid situations, and, uh there are so many more.
The book is really just filled with interesting stories, articles, quotes, quizzes, jokes and so much more.
uncle johns riddle me timber. thankyou, ken pohl19@comcast.net
ReplyDeleteI think my kids would enjoy the Totally Quacked book
ReplyDeleteI think we'd enjoy Attack of the Factoids.
ReplyDeleteUncle John's the Haunted Outhouse Bathroom Reader for Kids Only
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I would also like Uncle John's Weird Weird World.
ReplyDeleteI think we'd like Robotica!
ReplyDeleteAttack of the Factoids my kids love to learn
ReplyDeleteWe love our uncle john bathroom readers and when we are done we share it with the rest of my grandchildren and all the books travel from one home to another, I think we would like to read Uncle John's Weird, Weird World: Who, What, Where, When, and Wow! A lot of fun reading these books
ReplyDeleteI'd also like to read this book: Uncle John's InfoMania Bathroom Reader For Kids Only!.
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