New Releases by Bathroom Readers Institute

Uncle John's 24th flagship edition is glittering with more than 500 all-new pages of absorbing material that prove once again why Uncle John makes the best-selling bathroom-reading series in the world.

The information miners at the Bathroom Readers' Institute have unearthed a priceless collection of surprising, amazing, headscratching, and hilarious articles. Divided by length for your sitting convenience, 24-Karat Gold is chock-full of little-known history, random origins, weird news, celebrity secrets, and urban legends. As always, you'll find plenty of dumb criminals, clever wordplay, quirky quotations, and much, much more. Just open up to any page—who knows what treasures await you?

Judges gone wild
The Barbie scandals
Canada's underpants king
Helen Keller: vaudeville star
The double A-bomb survivors
The history of the umbrella
America's forbidden island
What the Hokey Pokey is really all about
And much, much more!

Featuring hundreds of amusing illustrations, fun fonts, and easy-to-read content, this book is filled with bite-sized tidbits divided into fun categories covering a wide range of subjects. For example, there's Green Stuff (“Grasshoppers hear with the fronts of their knees") and Microscopic Miracles (“There are more creatures in your mouth than there are humans on Earth"), and such comical categories as Facts About Feet and Eww, Gross! Like all the books in this series, this one is loaded with surprising factual information, presented in a format irresistible to young readers.

Learning Magazine 2014 Teachers' Choice for the Classroom Award for Children's Books
2013 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award Silver Finalist in Young Reader: Nonfiction
2012 ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year Awards, Bronze in Juvenile Nonfiction Category

Uncle John knows what kids want: the fascinating trivia that has made Uncle Johns' Bathroom Reader a household name, plus fun stuff meant For Kids Only!

The big brains at the Bathroom Institute refuse to grow up! That's why this all-new Bathroom Reader For Kids Only! is packed with puzzles, wordplay, mazes, brainteasers, mad science experiments, revolting recipes, crazy crafts, and, most importantly, the incredible facts and astounding trivia that Bathroom Reader fans crave. Kids can open to any page and find irresistible things to read and do, including?

- How to defrost a woolly mammoth
- The giant fart that helped dinosaurs rule the Earth
- An ogre drool-maze: find the path from the slobbery ogre to the mop
- Make your own Maggoty Brownies
- Create a fake cocoa spill guaranteed to freak out Mom
- Play Bug Sudoku!
- How a potato ended a baseball player's career

Psst: Don't tell the kids, but Kid-topia readers will get smarter while having a blast.

Once upon a time, Uncle John set his ghouls on a task to create three new For Kids Only! books: Strange & Scary, Wild & Woolly, and Under the Slimy Sea. But then a giant green creature oozed out of the muck and gobbled them all up! And what did that horrible thing spit out? This book--Creature Feature! It's bubbling over with more than 400 pages of blood-curdling facts, gut-wrenching activities, cringe-inducing jokes, and head-spinning true stories--all made even more icky by all the freaky photographs and illustrations. Whether it walks, limps, gallops, flies, crawls, swims, or just sits there and makes fart noises--chances are you'll encounter it in Creature Feature. So have a spooky good time checking out . . .

- The World's Smelliest Sneaker
- Dog-sized horses and horse-sized dogs
- The great ball of snot
- An armadillo invasion and a turtle traffic jam
- Zombies, Bigfoot, and ?the mothman”
- How to make your own mummy
- Why polar bears don't eat penguins
- Vengeful ghosts and haunted castles
- And much more!

Don't say we didn't warn you.

Lexile score: 1000L