Are you ready to say "knock-knock" nearly a thousand times? Then here's a collection to last you a lifetime, or until you've driven your parents and friends crazy, whichever comes first. This is the biggest knock-knock treasury you'll ever find. While you fill the neighborhood with laughs, you'll also enjoy dozens of zany cartoon drawings that show just how ridiculous these jokes can be! 352 pages, 180 b/w illus., 4 3/16 x 5 1/4.

"Rules, strategies, history. Master Chickenfoot, One-arm Joe, Seven-toed Pete, and many other games."--Cover.

Get smart--give your brain a super-sized workout that's fun, challenging, and mind-expanding! You'll really have to keep your wits about you as you tackle six big sections filled with puzzles and tricks of every sort, from the visual to the verbal. Try critical thinking and lateral thinking questions, where you'll have to "work outside the box," forget your assumptions, and look at the problem from a fresh viewpoint. Whodunits have all the pleasures of a mystery--but you're the detective trying to figure it out! Be "number one" at math conundrums, and open your eyes and look sharp when you tackle the picture puzzles and optical illusions. Give this a shot and find out if you can be a "toothpick architect"! Build a house using 11 toothpicks as shown in the diagram. See if you can make the house face the opposite direction by moving only one toothpick. Answer: Move one of the toothpicks in the roof.

Ghosts, specters, and spooksoh my! These scary, creepy, spine-chilling, and thrilling tales will turn Halloween into a real fright nightbut theyre also great any time a kid craves a little hair-raising amusement. With more than 350 pages, there are plenty of otherwordly shivers to please any daring and wide-eyed young reader.

An illustrated collection of hundreds of difficult tongue twisters, arranged alphabetically.

Contains hundreds of interesting trivia questions and answers on a variety of subjects.

Pick a card, any card--but DON'T pick any other card book! This one's beyond compare, the biggest and the best, with 352 pages of fabulous sleights and tricks that will amaze your friends. "Force" your volunteers to choose the right card; make false cuts and shuffles; do double lifts; sneak a peek; and much more. With a little practice, ideas for presentation, and great hints on making magic with your deck, you'll put on a show-stopping performance every time. 352 pages, 156 b/w illus., 4 3/16 x 5 1/4.

To this day, dinosaurs remain a never-ending source of fascination to children, who just can't get enough of these compelling creatures. Illustrations, picturing over 60 dinosaur types (including some new discoveries that appear here for the first time in a children's book), maps, and a guide to each individual species--plus an overall introduction to fossils--tell youngsters how and why all the dinosaurs developed as they did. Answer exactly the types of question kids want to know: How big were they? What did they eat? Where did they live? What do their names mean? This lively trip back to the Age of the Dinosaurs, from its beginnings in the Triassic period to the great extinction at the end of the Cretaceous, is guided by one of the major authorities in the field, Dr. Thomas Holtz, vertebrate paleontologist at the University of Maryland, whose specialty is the study of carnivorous dinosaurs.

Over 350 pages of chuckles and chortles, snickers and snorts, giggles and guffaws. From Cool School to Funky Families, Cats and Dogs to Oh, Horrors, this is simply the biggest little book of jokes, riddles and knock-knocks ever. And the comical pictures on every page really add to the fun. Need a "worm up" to get your body ready for hours of hysterical laughter? Have some hoots on the birds: What did the parakeet say when it was hungry? "Long time no seed." Moo-ving right along: Why did the cow cross the street? To get to the udder side. Then it's lions, and tigers, and bears, oh my! Why couldn't the three bears get back into their house? Because it had Goldie locks. Plus: Law and Disorder, All Wet, Play Ball!, On the Net, and much more amusement.

Turn those times when you have to sit still for hours into fun occasions you actually look forward to. More travel games than you'll find anyplace else--352 pages crammed with things to do--are specially designed for kids and families when everybody's cooped up in a car or plane, or when you're stuck in a long line or at a slow-food restaurant. Try one of the guessing games where the props are clothes people around you are wearing. Play the new version of Twenty Questions, with clever tactics and winning strategies. Choose from two types of Charades--one noisy and active, the other with pencil and paper. On the road, make hilarious anagrams of words on the back a truck, or edit bumper stickers to mean the opposite of their intention. If all else fails, watch what happens when you strike up a chorus of "Oh You Can't Get to Heaven on Roller Skates" in a crowd.