The Original #1 Mad Libs
World's Greatest Word Game
Penguin Young Readers Group · Print & ebook · February 1, 1974
The idea is simple.
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- Who it’s for
- Parts of speech become prompts for filling blanks and making stories go sideways.
- Themes
- Wordplay, Silly humor
- Genres
- Word Games, Grammar, Kids' Humor
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The idea is simple. Someone asks for a part of speech: a verb, a noun, an adjective, or an adverb. We've included definitions and examples of the parts of speech in case you've forgotten. Players call out their ideas to fill in the blanks and in the end, you have a story reeling from one silly sentence to another until nothing makes sense. That's what you call a Mad Lib®, the world's greatest word game.
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Players have been howling with friends or laughing all to themselves for over 35 years! Here's where the fun begins. Check out The Original Mad Libs®. Once you hear the laughs this one inspires, you'll probably want to play the rest.
Parts of Speech
Parts of speech become prompts for filling blanks and making stories go sideways.
Come here for
- Definitions and examples of verbs, nouns, adjectives, and adverbs
- Calling out words to fill in story blanks
Expect
- Stories that tumble from one silly sentence to another until nothing makes sense
Where it sits
| Word Games | 92% |
|---|---|
| Kids' Humor | 37% |
| Grammar | 31% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Activity Books
- Kids' Humor
- Grammar
- Authors
- Roger Price, Leonard Stern
- Publisher
- Penguin Young Readers Group
- Published
- February 1, 1974
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Wordplay · Silly humor
- Reading lane
- Activity Books