Go Mad for Mad Libs
“Look! he said graciously as he jumped into his convertible pocketbook and drove off with his sticky wife. The apprehensive sky started raining gorillas and water bottles as the two happily headed toward their furry hotel.”
Don’t worry – the above paragraph isn’t going to make sense no matter how many times you read it. But it’s not supposed to make sense, and that’s the beauty of Mad Libs!
Mad Libs was invented in 1953 by Leonard Stern and Roger Price, who published the first Mad Libs children’s book in 1958. Mad Libs is a phrasal template word game book based on spontaneous improvisation. One player asks the other for a list of words (adverbs, nouns, adjectives, exclamations, parts of the body, etc.) to substitute for blanks in the story. The result is a hilarious and unrealistic story (that is read aloud) that gets the whole group laughing.
At our online educational book store, we sell many different types of Mad Libs books including Mad Libs From Outer Space, Pirates Mad Libs, and Under the Sea Mad Libs Junior Book. Our Mad Libs books are only $3.99! Order your children’s books today by calling 407-438-6700 today!
“Arrrr Matey!”
Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island sparked a great interest in pirates. It started slowly, with the genre of pirate novels, but then these books were made into movies. With the help of Johnny Depp, these movies became a phenomenon that resulted in pirate action figures, pirate themed parties, fan clubs, Halloween costumes, and even pirate jargon.
However, Hollywood portrays pirates a bit differently than history tells us. For example, pirates preferred another, much more RUTHLESS form of punishment to “walking the plank”. The punishment they preferred, called keel-hauling, entails tying their victims to a long rope and dragging them underneath the ship. Also, pirates did have a particular way they spoke, but the idioms such as “arrrr matey!”, came directly from Hollywood.
Distinguish the myths from the facts with our educational Pirate Books, available on our website or by calling 407-438-6700.
High Times on the High Seas
Donning a peg leg and slinging an eye-patch across your face doesn’t have to only be socially acceptable on Halloween. You can turn your gnarled swashbuckling, plundering, bootlegged hobby into a career by following in the footsteps of Blackbeard and learning a few buccaneer group melodies while haphazardly swinging your flagon like a pendulum. Though pirates may be ruthless and callous while commanding the oceans, they do make well-crafted bandanas emblazoned with the Jolly Roger that they’re more than happy to give away.
Though pirates are commonly depicted as merciless, violent smugglers, many times they simply abandon you on a remote island or have you walk the plank. Find out if you’d spare your hapless foes by reading through our fantastic selection of books concerning pirates and their lust for wholly-water domination. Who knows, you may be humming “the pirate’s life for me” while fashioning your canoe into a intimidating galleon of scallywag nature.
To learn more about the Pirate print, film, and sound Beyda & Associates’ offers, call 866-702-3932.
