Books in For Kids Only series

It all started when a group of mad-scientist-type plumbers asked Uncle John a question, "Why should computers have the only worldwide network?" His answer: "They shouldn’t!" So Uncle John put together a top-secret plumbing team to link together all the world's sewer lines and create...Presto flusho!...the Interpipe! Then he found a world-famous puzzle master to create 96 pages of interactive Interpipe adventures. With one flush of a turbo-charged toilet, a player can travel the world from Walla Walla to Katmandu, Transylvania to Timbuktu. But wait! It gets even better! Set the floater ball and flapper just right and toilet travelers can swirl backward in time. Best of all, travelers don't have to go down the toilet alone. A charming rat named Dwayne hosts each iFlush Swimming in Science adventure.- As they flush their way through the Interpipe, players must solve puzzles to go from page to page.- Puzzle solutions lead readers back and forth through the book, so that every time they open Uncle John's iFlush Swimming in Science, it's an all-new adventure!- Every page is packed with the kind of fantastic factoids readers expect from books in Uncle John's Bathroom Readers FOR KIDS ONLY series.

This newly illustrated, highly collectible hardcover edition of Uncle John's Electrifying Bathroom Reader for Kids Only! is so awesome it'll make curious young readers’ 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 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? The mysterious goings-on in the Bermuda Triangle, how not to get struck by lightning, the history of the @ sign, real-life X-Men, royal slobs, and newspaper kids from a century ago who went on strike...and won!Lexile score: 940L

2012 ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year Awards, Finalist in Juvenile Nonfiction CategoryThis legendary addition to the wildly successful For Kids Only! series is chock full of the fun facts and eye-popping illustrations that kids have come to love, but this time we’ve added something new: fractured fairy tales . . . in graphic-novel style! They’re brought to life in full color by some of today’s best children’s book illustrators. But wait, there’s more! The Enchanted Toilet also has a whole bunch of mystical activities--including crafts, recipes, poems, jokes, tongue twisters, and a few magical experiments. All you have to do is wave your magic wand and click your heels together three times. You’ll be enchanted by . . .Fantastic facts!- Real-life princesses (including one with a tattoo!)- Ninja: secrets of the invisible warriors- The human magnet and other dark wizards- The real-life HogwartsEnchanting activities!- How to make a wand- Using treats to catch a leprechaun- Sir Uncle John’s “Guide to Training Your Dragon”Twisted tales!- “The Cockroach, the Mouse, and the Cricket”- “The Fairy Hedgehog”- “Ali Baba and the Forty Steves”Lexile score: 760L

2014 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award Gold Winner in Young Reader: Nonfiction (8-12 Years)!It's wacky, fun, and easy to read! It's a whole new twist on learning! And it's For Kids Only — boys, girls, kids who like to read, kids who don't, kids with noses, nosey kids, kids who pick their noses...even grown up kids. Anyone who opens Uncle John's Smell-O-Scopic Bathroom Reader will find page after page of fascinating facts and tantalizing true stories about science, history, pop culture, sports, amazing kids, goofy grownups, and (hold your noses...) disgustingly smelly things!Part of the Uncle John's Bathroom Reader For Kids Only series, this illustrated edition features such topics as- The World's Smelliest Ghosts- The Founding Father who Farted Proudly- A Mama Mutt that Adopted a Human Baby- South Africa's Snake Girl- The Abominable Crustacean- Cleopatra's Beauty Tips- An Artist Who Sculpts with Toenail Clippings,Plus...riddles and jokes, quotes and quizzes, brainteasers, word-origins, and much, much more!Uncle John's Smell-O-Scopic Bathroom Reader includes story lengths to fit any attention span (or accommodate any duration of Throne Time)--"short" (one page), "medium" (two pages), and "long" (three to five pages)--and they're all fun, informative, and educational.Lexile score: 920L

Here is an exciting chance to own the very first Uncle John's Bathroom Reader For Kids Only! in a hardcover edition with all new illustrations! When our younger readers demanded a Bathroom Reader of their own, Uncle John put together this brain-boggling easy-to-read collection of facts, fads, quotes, history, science, origins, pop culture, mythology, humor, and more! Plus it's full of wacky and fun illustrations and Uncle John's famous "running feet" — those fun and fascinating facts on the bottom of every page. Curious young readers will learn about the real Dr. Seuss, baseball superstitions, the birth of The Simpsons, how carnival games are rigged, the history of dining on scorpions and tarantulas, shocking truths about thunder and lightning, and disgusting bodily functions like ear wax production and digestion (and why they're important), and much, much more!Lexile score: 1000L

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 packed with 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 much, much more!Lexile score: 1000L

Infomania is the compulsive desire to gobble up information, and kids growing up in the information age have it bad. Young infomaniacs are hungry, hungry, hungry for information. Who knows information better than Uncle John? No one! And now he's figured out how to deliver information fixes without computers or modems or the Internet. How? In a handy pocket-sized book packed with fascinating facts! Uncle John's InfoMania is bursting with information so compelling, so mesmerizing, so...weird...it could only come from the professional infomaniacs at the Bathroom Readers' Institute, and it's "For Kids Only!"Inside this nonfiction, easy-to-read pocket guide you’ll find...- How to Get Rid of Freckles (live frogs are involved)- Action Figure Facts- What Makes 3-D Movies Work- Avalanche Survival Tips- World Records to Beat (extreme hula-hooping, anyone?)- And much, much more.Designed just for kids, this two-color, illustrated pocket book shares essential and off-the-wall information pulled from the info-maniacal vaults of the Bathroom Readers' Institute. It's science, history, math, social studies, sports, and entertainment; all packed into 272 pocket-sized pages and delivered in the bite-sized bits kids love to read!Lexile score: 920L

We locked the bad boys at the BRI in the water closet and let the fairer gender run things for a while. The result: For Girls Only! You’ll discover a secret stash of cheeky stories written for girls of all ages (but mostly pre-teens and teens). In what other book would you find fortune-telling tips through the ages, the recipe for Love Potion #9, and the origin of underwear? In no other book in the world! So unlock your inner goddess with . . .- The woman who invented the bulletproof vest- The Hungarian countess who killed for her beauty secret- Ten teen gals who became millionaires (and spent it wisely)- Guns and roses: the real-life story of Annie Oakley- The not-so-glamorous life of a fashion model- The princess diaries: horrific tales of intermarriage among the royal families- What movie stars wear during “nude” scenes and other cinema secretsAnd much, much more!Lexile score: 1100L

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

Fresh (or not so fresh) from swimming through the sewers of science, our charming host--Dwayne, the rat--hurtles into history for more Interpipe Adventures. What’s the Interpipe? We’re glad you asked! Copying how computers have been connected to form the Internet, four mad-scientist-plumbers (Plumb Bob, Phyllis Tanks, P. Liddy, and Portia Potty) linked the world’s sewer lines together to create the Interpipe. Next, the Four P’s created a waterproof device called the iSwirl that can be used to travel back in time with a mere flush of the toilet! Finally, Uncle John found a world-famous puzzle maker to chronicle every Interpipe adventure, and the rest is iFlush history!Here’s how it works:- Every page is packed with the kind of amazing true stories and fantastic factoids readers expect from Uncle John’s Bathroom Readers FOR KIDS ONLY.- Readers use clues in the history-filled stories and factoids to solve puzzles.- Once a puzzle is solved, Dwayne, our ratty host, flushes himself through the Interpipe to take readers to their next historical destination.- The ingenious iSwirl adds a twist by giving readers a choice: solve the puzzle and turn the page, or jump through time to the next historical adventure.