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Time to play Kids Eye “Mad Libs!”  

Can you guess the book excerpt shown below?  Go to Submit and let us know the title and author!

If you’ve never played, here’s what you do:

• Find a friend or a family member
• Read ONLY the italicized words to your friend and have him/her provide you with that type of word (can be any crazy word, as long as it’s the right part of speech).
• Write your friend’s answers in place of the italicized words.
• Read aloud and laugh!

I turn I turn I turn before I lie to sleep and I rise before the (noun).   I sleep inside and sleep outside and have slept in the hollow of a (adjective)  (noun).  When I sleep I need (plural noun) I need (plural noun) I need (plural noun). When I sleep I dream of (noun) and (plural noun)–(same plural noun) are messengers of   (noun)–and I dream of  (plural noun) for I love (same plural noun)  and (verb) them with gusto.