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Happy ____, Mad Libs
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Guess how long the Mad Libs series of books has been around? Twenty years? Twenty-five?
Nope, Mad Libs got started in 1958, which means it’s 50 years old this spring. Publishers Weekly website just ran an article by Sally Lodge about the popular book/game.
“Self-published by Leonard Stern and Roger Price in 1958, the original Mad Libs has spawned 71 subsequent volumes,” writes Lodge. “Mad Libs sales, which remain strong to this day, total more than 110 million copies. To celebrate the line’s 50th anniversary, Price Stern Sloan, now part of the Penguin Young Readers Group, is publishing Best of Mad Libs, a 288-page oversize paperback of 125 stories culled from earlier volumes, and Mad Libs Collector’s Edition, a commemorative tin containing the first five Mad Libs books with their original covers.”
That photo, by the way, is of the original Mad Libs cover.
I think Mad Libs is underrated. I think it’s a valuable tool for teaching children about language in a goofy way, and of bringing families together to play something that just about everyone can take delight in.
Anyone have fond memories of playing Mad Libs with their parents or their kids?
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