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Our top five literary party games for booklovers - Pan Macmillan. If, like us, you're always on the lookout for more bookish fun, you might want to gather some of your most well-read friends together to try out one of these literary party games. Planning a gathering for you and your most bookish friends? These literary party games will entertain the most well-read of friends at your next dinner party. 1. The paperback game There are many variations of this one, but I think Dwight Garner’s version as set out in his New York Times article a few years ago is excellent. 2. It may be a game of your long-lost childhood, but that doesn’t make it a bad game. 3. Take it in turns to read quotes by or about various characters – they could be from classic novels you all know or from your latest book group read. 4. This one is my favourite (dictionary geek alert). 5. Give everyone 4 or 5 slips of paper and get them to write down one person – real or fictional – on each.

One person from team 1 kicks off by grabbing a slip from the hat.

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How to Create Book Spine Poetry – Kenn Nesbitt's Poetry4kids.com. Have you heard of “book spine poetry?” It’s a kind of poetry that you don’t really write from scratch – instead, you “find” it by arranging book titles to make a poem. This type of poem can be serious or funny, just like in regular poetry. Here’s the basic idea. Imagine that you’re sitting at a table with all of these books in front of you: Green Eggs and HamGoodnight MoonThe Very Hungry CaterpillarDon’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! To make a book spine poem, you would start by moving these books around into stacks with the spines together so that the titles are like the lines of a poem. Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! In this story, if you let the pigeon drive the bus, you might end up going a lot of unexpected places. Here is a different kind of story: Green Eggs and HamStone SoupThe Very Hungry Caterpillar In this story, the caterpillar is hungry because the only food to eat is stuff that doesn’t taste very good.

Good Night, GorillaGoodnight Moon First, you’ll need some books. Hangman - Play for Free By Popular Topic at FactMonster. Custom Hangman Game. Genre Jeopardy. Bookworm (Original) - Play Online on SolitaireParadise.com. Gameplay Click on the letters you want to use to create a word. You can only select adjacent letters. Once you have formed the word you had in mind, click on submit and Lex the bookworm will eat the letter tiles you selected. New letters will be provided so there are always new options to explore. Don't find any words in the field? Click on Lex to scramble all the letter tiles and get a new field to work with! Bonus words In the original version, bonus words were displayed beneath Lex the bookworm starting from round 2. Special Tiles There are several special tiles that can appear throughout the game. Burning tiles: Beware of red burning tiles, if they reach the bottom of the field they will set the library on fire and you lose the game.

Scoring The score for a word is calculated based on four elements: Word length: As mentioned before, the longer the word, the higher the score will be.Letter scarcity: The usage of scarce letters is beneficial for the score. Tips and tricks Developer. Christmas Games - Safe Kid Games. Have a merry good time playing our fun selection of online Christmas Games for kids. These free online games will put your holiday skills to the test! From Christmas kitties to reindeer games, we’ve got something fun for you to play! Our HTML5 games work great on your desktop computer, laptop, phone, or tablet. You can even play fullscreen by tapping the PLAY FULL SCREEN button on each individual game page. All of our games are designed to be fun and engaging for kids and the whole family. Here are some of our favorite Christmas Games we think you’ll love: Santa Girl Runner: Ever dream of running through a winter wonderland collecting coins, snowflake hearts, and holiday presents?

Christmas Furious: Imagine this. Santa Rescue: Join Santa in his quest to gather gifts. Santa’s Helper: Assist Santa in his gift-gathering mission. These are just a few of our favorites. Have a merry good time playing our fun selection of online Christmas Games for kids. Christmas Furious: Imagine this. Can You Guess the Children's Book From Its First Line? | Zoo.