Books with author Bathroom Readers' Institute

We admit it: Uncle John wasn’t a great student. He’d rather draw plungers or make fart noises than read boring school books. So we made this book with little Uncle John in mind. It’s full of fun facts and funny illustrations--all designed to make your teacher squirm. It’s got the weird. It’s got the wacky. And it definitely has the gross. So hide this book from the grownups as you check out . . .- Icky eats: fried spiders and candy-coated larvae- Hunting for real hidden treasures- The history of doughnuts- How to make armpit farts- Goofball students who grew up to be president- Wrong facts your teacher thinks are truePlus dumb crooks, amazing kids, animal oddities, and a whole lot more!Lexile score: 1010L

A Book of the Year Award 2013 Finalist in the category of Juvenile Nonfiction (Children’s)!What do you get when you cross a classic scary story such as “The Tell-tale Heart” with Uncle John’s trademark sense of humor? You get “The Tell-tale Fart” (Pee-uw!). And that’s just one of many twisted classic and original tales of humor and horror you’ll find inside The Haunted Outhouse. You’ll also find a spine-tingling collection of facts about topics such as real-life mad scientists, history’s terrible tyrants, and the world’s deadliest weather. Uncle John’s scare-fest is packed with page after page of crafts, recipes, poems, jokes, tongue twisters, and experiments straight from Dr. Johnenstein’s Laboratory. Graphic novel-style tales add plenty of illustrated pages to the mix. This haunted book of horrors could only come from the Bathroom Readers Institute, and it’s “For Kids Only.” ENTER IF YOU DARE!You’ll find terrifying tales, including - Revenge of the Meatloaf- The Legend of Peepee Hollow- The Creature from the Black Lagoon and the No Good, Very Bad Day- The Haunted OuthouseFrightening facts about - The Curse of Amen-Ra- The Attack of the Cow Lady- Decay-causing Tooth Worms- The FBI’s Body Farmand much more!!Lexile score: 850L

How do you keep the youngest patrons of the dining room from gnawing off the table legs while they wait for their meals? Easy! You feed their brains. Each tear-off sheet in this 36-page placemat pad is filled with brain-building activities: puzzles, mazes, brainteasers, jokes, quotes, weird facts, tabletop experiments, and noodle-while-you-doodle activities. And since it’s from that master of reading mayhem, Uncle John, every page of Magic Cupcake has been engineered to turn young eaters into readers! (Psst! Magic Cupcake can feed young brains in classrooms, too!) Each Feed Your Brain placemat pad has its own wacky theme. To engage their hungry minds, young readers find a Fairy Pie Maze, Mythical Beasts Brain Noodler, Wand-Doku (Sudoku with pictures!), Barely Bearable Riddles, Prince Charming Puzzler, and Finish-the-Fairytale: the tale of a Fairy Hedgehog (say that one three times fast!). They’ll also find jokes, fascinating factoids, riddles, and quotes guaranteed to amaze and annoy table companions of all ages!

Uncle John has packed this diary with mind-blowing information and filled it with brain-puzzling questions designed to help girls explore and build their beyond-extraordinary brains. Every page offers tantalizing trivia plus plenty of space for girls to fill with their own thoughts, sketches, inventions, lists, found facts, comic adventures, and totally mad ideas! This guided journal expands creative and critical thinking skills while masterfully disguising 176 pages of learning as F-U-N!Trivia and do-it-yourself pages for young infomaniacs include: meet Gwyneth Paltrow the actress (and mom) who got to wear Iron Man’s suit and kick butt in Iron Man 3. Then draw a comic featuring your mom as a superhero and you as her butt-kicking sidekick. Plus, learn about the cherpumple, a six-in-one dessert created by a chef searching for an easier way to taste all the desserts at holiday parties. Then make your own cherpumple! (It needs three flavors of pie, three flavors of cake, and one type of frosting.)And don't forget the bonus feature: full-color stickers! Two pages of peel-off stickers let kids create sticker stories, jazz up their journal pages, paste favorites to their foreheads, or sticker-up their backpacks and binders.

How do you keep kids from gnawing off the table legs while they wait for the meals? Easy! You feed their brains. Each tear-off sheet in this 36-page placemat pad is filled with brain-building activities: puzzles, mazes, brainteasers, jokes, quotes, weird facts, tabletop experiments, and noodle-while-you-doodle activities. And since it’s from that master of reading mayhem, Uncle John, every page of Scrambled Brains has been engineered to turn young eaters into readers! (Psst! Scrambled Brains can feed young brains in classrooms, too!)Each Feed Your Brain placemat pad has its own wacky theme. What do kids find to engage their hungry minds in Scrambled Brains?Eat This CrosswordWhy mice taste niceBrain farts triviaBird doodlesMustard splat mazeHow to turn a banana into a tasty banana slug!They also find jokes, fascinating factoids, riddles, and quotes that amaze and annoy table companions of all ages!

How do you keep kids from gnawing off the table legs while they wait for the meals? Easy! You feed their brains. Each tear-off sheet in this 36-page placemat pad is filled with brain-building activities: puzzles, mazes, brainteasers, jokes, quotes, weird facts, tabletop experiments, and noodle-while-you-doodle activities. And since it's from that master of reading mayhem, Uncle John, every page of Ogre Drool has been engineered to turn young eaters into readers! (Psst! Ogre Drool can grow young brains in classrooms, too!)Each Feed Your Brain placemat pad has its own wacky theme. What do kids find to engage their hungry minds in Ogre Drool?Wacky Whazzits Brain Noodler"It's a Zoo" crosswordCritter matching and makingBen Franklin's asparagus pee testHow to make pepper floatA super slimy Ogre Drool Maze!They also find jokes, fascinating factoids, riddles, and quotes that amaze and annoy table companions of all ages!

Did you know that Did You Know? is full of bite-sized tidbits of absorbing information just for kids? You do now! It’s also loaded with tons of funny illustrations. And in true Uncle John style, there are lots of surprises to be discovered in these 252 pages! To make it easier for kids to navigate, the book is divided into fun categories covering a wide range of topics—from Antarctica to zebras to nearly everything in between. Here are a few of the facts sure to amaze kids both big and little:* Listening to music is good for digestion.* The word cash originally referred to a money box.* By 2040, robots may become as intelligent as people.* Grasshoppers hear with the fronts of their knees. * Reebok shoes are named after a type of African gazelle.* 11,111,111 X 11,111,111 = 123,456,787,654,321.* In almost every language on Earth, the word for mother begins with the letter “m.”* The word hiccup appears once in the works of William Shakespeare.* Scientists have revived bacteria that were dormant for 250 million years.* If you’re floating in space and you fart, it will generate enough force to propel you forward.And hundreds more facts just like these!

Get ready to walk on the wild side!Once upon a time, Uncle John set his ghouls on a task to create three new For Kids Only! books: Strange & Scary, Wild & Woolly, and Under the Slimy Sea. But then a giant green creature oozed out of the muck and gobbled them all up! And what did that horrible thing spit out? This book--Creature Feature! It’s bubbling over with more than 400 pages of blood-curdling facts, gut-wrenching activities, cringe-inducing jokes, and head-spinning true stories--all made even more icky by all the freaky photographs and illustrations. Whether it walks, limps, gallops, flies, crawls, swims, or just sits there and makes fart noises--chances are you’ll encounter it in Creature Feature. So have a spooky good time checking out . . . * The World's Smelliest Sneaker * Dog-sized horses and horse-sized dogs* The great ball of snot* An armadillo invasion and a turtle traffic jam* Zombies, Bigfoot, and “the mothman”* How to make your own mummy* Why polar bears don't eat penguins* Vengeful ghosts and haunted castles* And much more! Don't say we didn't warn you.

How do you keep kids from gnawing off the table legs while they wait for meals? Easy! You feed their brains. Each tear-off sheet in this 36-page placemat pad is filled with brain-building activities: puzzles, mazes, brainteasers, jokes, quotes, weird facts, tabletop experiments, and noodle-while-you-doodle activities. Engineered to turn young eaters into readers and perfect for feeding young brains in classrooms, too! Each placemat pad has its own wacky theme, including the Asteroid Puzzler, Moon Codes Brain Noodler, Zero-Gravity Raisin Dance, Nuclear Anagrams, Alien Sudoku, and The (Almost) Unbelievable Story of a Pancake-Cooking Alien! Each placemat also includes jokes, fascinating factoids, and quotes guaranteed to amaze and annoy table companions of all ages.

Collectible hardcover edition! All new illustrations! Same top-secret mix of fun and illustrations.Adults, stop reading now. We mean it. This book is TOP SECRET and it’s FOR KIDS ONLY! (Are the grownups gone? Good.) Now that it’s just the kids, we’ll let the cat out of the bag: This book is full of disgusting things and nasty (but funny) pranks. It’s also got weird superstitions, freaky facts, unbelievable myths and legends, and did we mention gross stuff? Like boogers. And farting ghosts. And armpit sniffers. And entomophagy. (What’s that? It’s the practice of eating worms.) But there’s more than just gross stuff in this illustrated and easy-to-read book. You’ll be briefed in . . . * How to make your own secret code* Where the “Jolly Roger” pirate flag came from* Mermaid tales and other unbelievable sightings* The original alchemist and the search for the Philosopher’s Stone* The Captain Underpants story* A secret recipe for edible glass* Sneakers of the future And a whole bunch more!

Once upon a time, Uncle John set his ghouls on a task to create three new For Kids Only! books: Strange & Scary, Wild & Woolly, and Under the Slimy Sea. But then a giant green creature oozed out of the muck and gobbled them all up! And what did that horrible thing spit out? This book--Creature Feature! It’s bubbling over with more than 400 pages of blood-curdling facts, gut-wrenching activities, cringe-inducing jokes, and head-spinning true stories--all made even more icky by all the freaky photographs and illustrations. Whether it walks, limps, gallops, flies, crawls, swims, or just sits there and makes fart noises--chances are you’ll encounter it in Creature Feature. So have a spooky good time checking out . . .- The World's Smelliest Sneaker- Dog-sized horses and horse-sized dogs- The great ball of snot- An armadillo invasion and a turtle traffic jam- Zombies, Bigfoot, and “the mothman”- How to make your own mummy- Why polar bears don't eat penguins- Vengeful ghosts and haunted castles- And much more!Don't say we didn't warn you.Lexile score: 1000L

Collectible hardcover edition! All new illustrations! Same electrifying mix of fun and information.Collect your very own copy of this Uncle John's Bathroom Reader For Kids Only in a newly illustrated hardcover edition!The shocking truth is that Uncle John’s For Kids Only! books are nearly as popular as the big editions--and Electrifying is so awesome it’ll make kids’ hair stand on end. Illustrated and easy to read, this book is full of fascinating articles, fun games, forgotten history, silly science, myths and legends, jokes, weird sports, and more. And at the bottom of each page--288 in all--are Uncle John’s famous “running feet” facts, like this one: Bald eagle nests can weigh up to two tons--more than a compact car. What else is in here? Lots of great short articles! For example: * The history of the @ sign* Real-life X-men* The mysterious goings-on in the Bermuda Triangle* How not to get struck by lightning* Real-life X-men* Test your phobia IQ* Royal slobs* Decoding Harry Potter* Flying octopi at pro hockey games* Newspaper boys from a century ago who went on strike . . . and won And much, much more! Testimonials: "The Bathroom Readers are the most interesting and coolest things around..." -- Jennifer S. "I'm not big into reading long and boring books. Ever since I have discovered your book, I cannot put it down! It's perfect for people like me!" -- Raelyn H., age 14