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  • All You Need Is a Pencil: The Stuck in a Car, Plane, or Train Activity Book: Games, Doodling, Puzzles, and More!

    Joe Rhatigan

    Paperback (Charlesbridge, April 8, 2014)
    Vacation--no homework, no school, and no more teacher’s dirty looks! Unfortunately, it usually begins with the family sitting around somewhere or stuck in a plane, train, or car. BOR-IIIING! Fortunately, with these quizzes, puzzles, games, and doodles, the fun doesn’t have to wait, even if you do. And you can do them anywhere—no electricity needed—with just a pencil. Fill in travel quotes, writing in the name of anyone who says one of the phrases on the page—like "I have to go to the bathroom" or "I think we’re lost." Play gomoku, a two-person game that’s similar to tic-tac-toe. Plan the ultimate vacation—a week anywhere in the world. Draw creepy critters, try tongue-tripping-twisters, and unscramble anagrams. It’s all so entertaining that no one will ask the dreaded question: Are we there yet?
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  • All You Need Is a Pencil: The Weird, Wacky, and Unusual Activity Book

    Joe Rhatigan

    Paperback (Charlesbridge, May 17, 2016)
    Kids will be enticed to look up from the screen and pick up a pencil with these weird, wacky, and sometimes disgusting activities. Draft texts between yourself and a werewolf, learn weird trivia, draw bodies for monster heads and monster heads for their bodies, and play a gross edition of Would You Rather. Grab a friend and learn how to play games like Weird Telephone and Mind Your P's and Q's. Or just take two blank pages and see how much of the page you can fill without the lines crossing. Complete with quizzes, puzzles, games, and doodles infused with "ewww" factor, Weird Quizzes, Wacky Games and Disturbing Doodles offers hours of entertainment.
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  • All You Need Is a Pencil: The Totally Hilarious All About America Activity Book

    Joe Rhatigan

    Paperback (Charlesbridge, May 17, 2016)
    Kids will be catapulted back through American history with dozens of activities, quizzes, games, puzzles, and doodles that explore the wacky side of our country's past. Explore early American history as you draw a new dress for Abigail Adams, practice your signature like John Hancock, and do a word search of popular names from the 1770s. Conquer a MadLib of the national anthem or write your own modern history by designing your own presidential campaign—then decorate the oval office after you're elected. Peppered with "A Bit of Learnin''' sections to give the real facts behind the activities, Hilarious American History makes America's past, present, and possibly future come alive for kids.
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  • All You Need Is a Pencil: The Rainy Day Activity Book: Games, Doodling, Puzzles, and More!

    Joe Rhatigan

    Paperback (Charlesbridge, April 8, 2014)
    Rain, rain, go away . . . actually, after seeing this activity book, kids will say: Rain, rain, please STAY! It’s so chock-full of fun things that it won’t matter what the weather is like. Children will never be bored when they can create a drawing of what a rooster might look like as a robot, finish silly sentences, and solve mini-crosswords. Or maybe they’ll lose their marbles playing the "Lost Your Marbles?" word search game. Budding fashionistas can design a t-shirt on the page (and maybe a real one), while future rock ‘n’ roll stars can pick the perfect band name by picking from a word list or by randomly choosing phrases from the dictionary. A few games are meant for two—just in case a friend’s around. With tongue twisters to make you snort, "off with its head" fill-ins (where you chop off the first letter), and classic riddles and conundrums, you won’t care how hard it pours!
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  • The Kids' Guide to Nature Adventures: 80 Great Activities for Exploring the Outdoors

    Joe Rhatigan

    Paperback (Lark Books, May 1, 2003)
    “This readable guide is packed with detail about how to have fun exploring the natural world, from the backyard to the seashore to the forest to national parks...Attractive, browsable design, with color photos on thick paper...This is a must for middle-school environmentalists and outdoor adventures.”—Booklist.
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  • Kids' Crafts: Soapmaking: 50 Fun & Fabulous Soaps to Melt & Pour

    Joe Rhatigan

    Paperback (Lark Books, Aug. 1, 2005)
    New in Paper"A perfect combination of text, color photography, design, and child models....This welcome activity book will surely please children and the adults who work with them."--School Library JournalWith this ideal guide in hand, kids will enjoy sud-sational soapmaking success. Here are all the basics of the easy melt and pour technique, with 56 fun projects and nearly 300 colorful photos. Children will have a blast creating gross-out eyeball soaps or smiley faces; fashioning a soapasaurus; or cooking up some "alphabet soap."
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  • Get Smarter: Word Search Puzzles for Kids: 75 Puzzling Puzzles To Baffle, Bemuse & Do Battle with Your Brain

    Joe Rhatigan

    Paperback (MoonDance Press, Oct. 17, 2017)
    You'll be the smartest kid on your block when you solve these puzzles within puzzles within puzzles in Get Smarter: Word Search Puzzles for Kids. Do you like your word search puzzles, but have always wished that they came with a little extra pizzazz? Well, look no further, because Get Smarter: Word Search Puzzles for Kids has exactly what you're looking for! You will find 75 puzzles in this book were specially created to baffle and bemuse your brain! This collection of mind bending puzzles warms you up with a few traditional word searches, but don't get too comfortable! Just when you think you've got it figured out, Get Smarter: Word Search Puzzles for Kids hits you in the head with missing clues (or no clues!); scrambled clues; coded clues; answers spelled out in circles instead of straight lines; extra hidden words; and much more. Put on your puzzle solving goggles, because before you can solve these word finding puzzles, you're going to have to solve a puzzle!
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  • People You Gotta Meet Before You Grow Up: Get to Know the Movers and Shakers, Heroes and Hotshots in Your Hometown

    Joe Rhatigan

    Hardcover (Charlesbridge, Feb. 25, 2014)
    It doesn’t have to be a celebrity, it doesn’t have to be a big-name athlete: some of the most important and exciting people a kid can meet live right nearby, in his or her own hometown! These are the folks who quietly help keep us safe, grow our food, and motivate us with their success. And this engaging book explains who these world-changers are, what they do, why they’re important, and how to make contact. Using a fun and appealing notebook-style format filled with lighthearted illustrations, it identifies individuals who might be cool to meet—from farmers and travelers to local entrepreneurs, politicians, and artists. Plus, it gives inquisitive strategies, interview questions, and research ideas, along with plenty of interesting tidbits, great quotes, intriguing profiles, blogs to check out, and Q&As. Every child will find something life-changing in these pages as they explore the lives of animal rescuers, scientists, writers, crafters, chefs, engineers, and so many more. They’ll even learn about the teens and tweens who take an active role in making their communities better places—like Maya Shea Penn, a thirteen-year-old entrepreneur, philanthropist, designer, artist, animator, illustrator, and writer who started her own company when she was only eight! Who knows where it will inspire a kid to go?
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  • Kids' Crafts: Soapmaking: 50 Fun & Fabulous Soaps to Melt & Pour

    Joe Rhatigan

    Hardcover (Lark Books, Aug. 1, 2003)
    Melt-and-pour soapmaking is the perfect easy and safe craft for kids, and this is the ideal guide to teach them how to do it. All the basics are covered to ensure "sud-sational" success, and 56 fun projects and nearly 300 colorful photos add to the appeal. The fun begins with choosing a soap base and selecting molds, from 3-D seashells and eggs to sandbox toys. Add fragrance, color, or other pizzazzy extras, such as pearlescent powder, shimmery cosmetic grade glitter, crushed dried flower petals, or herbs. Children will have a blast getting wacky with gross-out eyeball soaps, making soap popsicles complete with a wooden stick, getting happy with smiley faces, fashioning a soapasaurus, or cooking up "alphabet soap." Great gift ideas include a Best Friend Soap Bracelet or clear bar with a photo embedded for Grandma. Plus, there are cool soap facts throughout.
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  • Get a Job at the Airport

    Joe Rhatigan

    language (Cherry Lake Publishing, Sept. 1, 2016)
    In Get a Job at the Airport, fictional character Jeremiah Oliver Baumgartner (Job, for short) introduces readers to a wide variety opportunities found (through his adventure and misadventures) at the airport. Back matter includes creative writing prompts and activities.
  • In Print!: 40 Cool Publishing Projects for Kids

    Joe Rhatigan

    Hardcover (Lark Books, March 1, 2003)
    On paper, plastic, or cloth; decorated with rubber stamps, stencils, and markers: get your work into print! Every lively page, bursting with boxed tips, full-color photos, and drawings, turns the publishing process into a fun adventure. These unique projects display dozens of creative ways to showcase words, from books to beyond. Want to write about someone you love? Put your thoughts on a memory frame around a photograph. Have a jewel of a poem? Copy it onto a sheet of shrinkable plastic, cut the words into cool shapes, stick them in the oven, and voila! They've become charms to hang on a bracelet. Light up language with a literary luminary, record a story on tape, fold an accordion book, and lots more. Plus: amazing writing secrets revealed; advice on making design decisions; inside info on famous authors; comments from real kids about how they get ideas; and more.
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