A Dream Within A Dream: Game On! USA Blog Tour: Review + Giveaway

Game On! USA: Awesome Activities for Clever Kids
Written by Patrick Merrell
Publisher: Dover Publications
Ages 8-12 | 144 Pages

Publisher’s Synopsis:

The newest Game On! Awesome Activities for Clever Kids title, this activity book has dozens of new and challenging brain games for ages 8 to 12. More than 100 colorful puzzles feature the excitement and adventure of the United States, including crosswords, secret codes, word scrambles, spot the differences, mazes, and much more. It’s the perfect book for at home or on the go, and the fun starts with just a pencil — no electricity or batteries needed! Complete solutions appear at the end of the book.

Game On! USA is a fun and challenging puzzle book for kids in the 8 to 12 year range. There's a nice variety of puzzle types - crosswords, mazes, word jumbles, secret codes to break, and lots more. I probably had as much fun going through this book and solving all the puzzles and games as a middle grade reader will. There are tons of fun illustrations throughout the book which I thought made it even more interesting and entertaining. It's not a huge book, but the puzzles and games found within its pages are of great quality and are challenging but not to the point of frustration. I highly recommend this book for the target audience - kids between the ages of 8 and 12 - along with older readers who enjoy solving puzzles and games.

Patrick Merrell is a professional puzzlemaker, cartoonist, writer, illustrator, and graphic designer. He’s one of MAD magazine’s “Usual Gang of Idiots.” He’s created over 250 books, including 75 puzzle books, and written 81 crosswords for The New York Times (including 19 Sundays). Six of his Times crosswords appear in Will Shortz Picks His Favorite Puzzles, the most of any constructor. From 2009 to 2011, he wrote for Wordplay, the daily online crossword column for The New York Times. He’s also created puzzles for the Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, Scientific American, People, Sports Illustrated, MAD, National Wildlife Foundation, Crayola, Scholastic, the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament, the World Puzzle Championship, and many, many others.

PURCHASE LINKS:

https://amzn.to/3yGMpmT

https://bookshop.org/a/2078/9780486841854

https://store.doverpublications.com/0486841855.html