Books with author Bathroom Readers' Institute

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.

Uncle John holds his breath, dives in, and goes deep, deep under the sea to bring back tantalizing tales of the fantastic fish and crazy creatures who live beneath the ocean. Uncle John's Under the Slimy Sea Bathroom Reader for Kids Only has everything a little landlubber could want: jokes, puzzles, quizzes, and bizarre tales of the high seas, including shipwrecks and sunken treasure, mermaids, shark attacks, sea serpents, and thermal vents. With over 100 photos and illustrations, this irresistible book is perfect reading for youngsters at home, with friends, on the bus, or for those challenging long or short car trips.

This cow-fully researched collection of fascinating facts is illustrated, easy to read, and packed tighter than a saddlebag with 100% Grade A information. Inside Uncle John’s Extra Moo-ving Bathroom Reader you’ll find 288 pages filled with strange science, weird news, obscure history, odd sports, and the interesting origins of everyday things. Special to this edition: Uncle John has included some of the most moo-ving facts about the Wild West including cowboys, cowgirls, cowlicks, cow pies, and—not to be forgotten—cows!And that’s not all! The newest fact-packed reader in the Uncle John’s FOR KIDS ONLY series features such topics as *Bill Pickett: the Bulldogger Who Bit Bulls*The World’s First Singing Fish*“The Living Dead” (and other oxymorons)*Why Potato-chip Bags are so Hard to Open*Lasers vs. Malaria (and other hi-tech cures)*Plant Tricksters: Seeds that Jump, Hop, and Fly*Games People Play (with cow pies)Plus riddles and jokes, quotes and quizzes, experiments and recipes, brainteasers and much, much more!Uncle John’s Extra Moo-ving Bathroom Reader includes story lengths to fit any attention span (or accommodate any duration of Outhouse Time)—“short” (one page), “medium” (two pages), and “long” (three to five pages)—and they’re all fun, informative, and educational. Warning: Reading this book may make you smarter than your friends!

Even kids who don't like to read will love Uncle John's Electrifying Bathroom Reader for Kids Only. It contains over 300 pages of lighthearted, easy-to-read, user-friendly material that's designed just for kids. Young readers will be on the edge of their seats (no pun intended!) as they learn little-known facts about dozens of topics. Chapters are organized according to subject -- superstitions, traditions, sports, food, mythology, entertainment, the body, and more -- and length -- "short" (one page), "medium" (two pages), and "long" (three to five pages). Culled from actual suggestions from hundreds of kids, topics include Even More Gross Stuff (earwax demystified); Oops! (monumental blunders); The Case of the Missing Body Parts (Where's Einstein's brain?); Toys That Flopped (Thuggies, Flubber, and Angel Babies); Odd World Records (world's longest hoop roller); and Reel Wisdom (wise words from Yoda, Z, and Ferris Bueller). One-line factoids at the bottom of every page create a book within a book. This is a wonderfully wacky compendium of fun facts for kids who are dedicated to the art of throne sitting.

If there’s a kid out there who doesn’t like to hunt for hidden pictures, Uncle John will eat a dozen rubber duckies (Warning: This claim has yet to be confirmed). In true Uncle John’s tradition, we’ve taken an irresistible idea (hidden pictures) and added brain-expanding value (historical trivia). The editors at the Bathroom Readers’ Institute have delved into history to find the most intriguing warriors ever: Japanese ninjas and samurais, Amazon archers, Mongol horsemen, World War II spies, Native American warriors, Viking raiders, medieval knights, and China’s warrior princess. Then we hid them in colorful, action-packed search-and-find scenes. Every two-page scene includes facts to aid the searcher in finding the warriors and to expand the adventure into a history-discovery adventure. It’s an Uncle John’s original and it’s FOR KIDS ONLY!

Introducing, the wackiest of wacky nonfiction from Uncle John in one brain-expanding volume, guaranteed to keep kids reading all summer. Fact 1: Kids need to read nonfiction to make it in school. Fact 2: Kids lose educational ground every summer. Fact 3: Reading keeps kids from losing ground.Solution—Give kids Uncle John's School's Out! and put them at the head of the pack when class is back in session. What’s inside? The absolute BEST OF THE BEST OF THE BEST nonfiction stories from Uncle John’s bestselling Bathroom Readers! Read about giant snot balls of the ocean, bomb-sniffing rats, snakes in the toilet, underwear-eating bacteria, and much much more. Once kids pick it up, they won’t be able to put it down.