Super Silly Mad Libs Junior: World's Greatest Word Game Paperback – February 2, 2004

I ordered this for my daughter's 2nd grade class and the students love it. I'm very pleased with my order!

We've been fan of MadLibs for years. We do these with our grandchildren (5 & 7 yrs old) - we have a blast, and they know the parts of speech!

This is a really great way for a kid to get into Mad Libs without getting frustrated with definitions of verbs, nouns, ect... My six year old uses this independently (he is a great reader but i think mst 6-7 year olds would be fine with this independently). Each page has a corresponding "suggestion" page. Instead of the blank lines saying things like "noun" underneath, there is a picture. On the suggestion page there is a corresponding picture with an explanation of what those words on (noun, adjective, ect..) and a list of words. My six year old will find his favorite words in each category, fill it in himself, and then go back and read the whole thing out loud and CRACKS HIMSELF UP! As he gets older we can introduce the regular version so he can be a little more creative but this is still very educational and age appropriate for him now. Keeps him busy at restaurants and at home and keeps him off screen time so its a total win.I saw a few reviews that said the layout was confusing.... it is not.

░░░░░GOOD FOR KIDS WHO CAN'T READ YET░░░░░(Not to be confused with kids who attend the Derek Zoolander School For Kids Who Can't Read Good)❖ I won't explain what Mad Libs are in general, assuming that you haven't lived under a rock for the last half a century. But these Mad Libs are great for little kids that don't know how to read yet. Instead of having the type of word needed under the blank lines like (noun), (adverb), (verb) etc...it does the whole thing with symbols. So it will have a star where it needs nouns, an arrow where is needs verbs, etc. Then there is a list above the MadLib of nouns under a star icon and verbs under an arrow icon so the kid can just randomly pick words without even reading them. (Obviously they will need someone who can read to read the MadLib back)❖ Even if the kid can't read the words, they are working with the words. And that's healthy development of reading skills. You can even have them copy the words from the provided lists into the blank spots. Again, even if they don't know what the words are, they can copy the letters. This helps with writing skills. And since they are categorized, the MadLib will work properly even by random selection. (By that I mean they will be silly and fun)❖ As for the enjoyment factor...it's Mad Libs. Come on! Who can't have fun with Mad Libs?

Super cute book for encouraging fun story building skills which is exactly why I purchased it. My kids enjoy making the silly stories and are also learning new vocabulary words and parts of speech. If I had one complaint it would be the paper quality. When you erase the paper peels a bit and thus if too much erasing is done the page will rip.

My kids, ages 8&5 recently discovered the fun of mad libs. The regular ones were a little too challenging for the 5yo, so I looked around and found the junior version. Bingo! These give good suggestions and theres a little more space to write in. If I could improve these, it'd be to have even more space to write in (most 5yos don't write particularly small), and I also think it'd be more convenient if the book opened to the side, (like a regular book) instead of flipping the page up. It's clunky to hold it that way and be able to see the suggestions at the same time. As it is, we have to do a lot of flipping it up to see it, then flipping it back behind the lower half of the book to be able to write.But I keep finding my son diligently filling in a mad libs when he's supposed to be going to sleep, so I guess that's a win 😂. He doesn't even realize how much he's learning about parts of speech!

Limited in scope compared to regular Mad Libs, but good for 4-6 year-olds because instead of a blank reading "verb," there's a symbol of an arrow. It focuses on 4 categories: Noun, Adjective, Verb, and Body Part.My tips for turning this into as much of a learning experience as possible:- With 2 young children, we take turns, round robin style, for each blank. I participate also. A different person starts each night.- Each word type has to be defined before an example is stated and written (i.e., "You have 'verb,' what's a verb"? "An action word" "Good, now what's your example of an action word?")- Let the kids have fun with this and get silly. They think potty humor is hilarious, but we ask them not to say those words most of the time ("bottom, butt, toots, farts" etc.) But I let them do it during Mad Libs because let's be honest; they're not that funny without blue humor, and the kids laugh so much about the poop jokes that they don't even realize they're learning.- Make Mad Libs a reward. We only do Mad Libs last, after we've successfully read a short story or three without much shenanigans or incident and with a reasonable amount of attention. Then we do our "Bedtime Math" problem, using our fingers to count. THEN, the kids BOTH have to put all the other stories and anything else away together. THEN we can do a Mad Lib.I'm sure soon enough this won't be so captivating and fun for the kids, but for now it's an easy way to teach them about different kinds of words. We also alternate some "regular" Mad Libs books for older kids that have more word types. That's how the kids learn what "adverbs" and "plural nouns," etc are (I learned too!).

Highly recommend these for children 8 and up. They love to add all the Verbs, Nouns and aggressives and then go back to read the passage