Cranium Big Book of Outrageous Fun!: The Write-It, Draw-It,...

Features

• Reading level: Ages 9-12
  
• Cover Type: Hard Cover with 56 pages
• Published by: L,B Kids September 7, 2005
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0316011932
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0316011938
• Book Dimensions: 10.1 x 9.9 x 2.3 inches
• Weighs: 2.9 pounds

Reader Reviews
Reviewed by Carolyn Howard-Johnson, award-winning author of This is the Place, Harkening: A Collection of Stories Remembered and The Frugal Book Promoter and a chapbook of poetry called Tracings This may be the most colorful, most useful, most fun little ten x ten cube a parent will ever run across. The Cranium Big Book of Outrageous Fun may also be the best twenty bucks they ever spent. It terms of entertainment. In terms of education. If I still had elementary kids living at home, I'd buy a half dozen or so of them and keep them on a closet shelf as a year's supply of birthday and Christmas gifts! As a former teacher, I have always had a thing about education being fun. I also believe that children should think so, too. Ideally, they should be having so much fun at learning they won't know that they are being educated. This is the item that will do it. Billed as "The Write-it, Draw-it, Sculpt-it, Act-it Game-in-a-Book-in-a-Game," it includes a great guidebook full of fun stuff like maps and fascinating tidbits all beautifully put together with color tabs and great illustrations by Baseman. It also includes "Cranium Clay" for sculpting, a miniature hourglass timer, game cards, a spinner (that you can see through a cutout on the front of the box), an erasable marker, game pieces and game board and a marker in this toy/book's fave color, purple. How the publisher, LB Kids, stuffed all this into one box is part of the fun. Cranium is suggested for kids seven and up. I'd say way up. It's been awhile since I did homework with kids. Some of this information was very good review for me, too. And there is no age limit on creativity. ------- (Carolyn Howard-Johnson's first literary novel, This is the Place, has won eight awards and Harkening, a collection of stories, has won three. She is also the author of The Frugal Book Promoter: How to Do What Your Publisher Won't. She is the mother of two grown children and the grandmother of two granddaughters who are still enthusiastically testing this great little book in a toy.) Comment | | (Report this)