After his bestselling Word Search Puzzles for Kids, Awesome Word Search Puzzles for Kids, and Clever Word Search Puzzles for Kids, Mark Danna's out to baffle youngsters again--and they'll enjoy every second of it. These puzzles are wildly imaginative and ingeniously designed. Instead of the usual grid, each one consists of a picture that fits the puzzle's subject, including an elephant and a dinosaur. There are other twists too. Three puzzles don't have a word list, so children have to create one from the clues. "Rappin' Up the Week" asks solvers to fill in the rhymes of a humorous rap song. Rebus puzzles feature little drawings. To top it off, every puzzle contains a hidden message that kids will uncover once they've completed the search.

It's teen time! Party on with puzzles geared to the hip and young, with themes focusing on hot actors and actresses, chartbusting pop music, blockbuster movies, must-watch TV, chilling at the mall, fashions you can't live without, extreme sports, dances, hangin' out, cars, romance, the Internet, games.you name it. And, what's even cooler is each word search has a special bonus: a hidden message in every single grid! Once you've found and circled all the listed words--looking up, down, and diagonally, forwards and backwards--take all the unused letters from left to right, row by row, top to bottom, to spell out a phrase relating the puzzle's subject. For example, when you're done with Good "Friends," you'll find the line "It hasn't been your day, your week, your month, or even your year," from the hit show's opening song. Just see how much fun you have with this one!

Show off how much you know about sports, music, famous people, TV shows, and dozens of other subjects. Try all 56 puzzles and find the hidden words that are written left to right, right to left, up, down, and diagonally. Test your wits on the wide worlds of: * things connected with a shopping mall, and stuff you use at school * fun at camp, and features of Disney World * words with the letter X * the Simpsons, horror movies, and other entertainment features * terms from the Internet, chemistry, outer space, and dinosaurs * ingredients on a pizza And lots more. Often the puzzles show you the whole word, but sometimes letters are left out to make it harder. Sometimes you're told the theme, but other times it's a secret. You get puzzles with words that rhyme, and even one on "nothing," where the answers could be the word nothing, or a zero, or the letter O. The final puzzle: words for goodbye. Jokes and little-known facts come with each puzzle. And oh yes, so do the answers. 96 pages, 5 3/8 x 8 1/4.

You'll need an eagle eye to complete these 60 challenging themed word searches: "White on Schedule" contains words of things that are white--such as mashed potatoes and underwear. Some of the grids break out of the traditional box. "Off and Running" is shaped like a horse and contains references to horse racing, while "Give me a Break!" is mug-shaped with words and phrases associated with coffee. There are puzzles to challenge your thinking skills. To complete "Bad Ideas for Movie Sequels" you'll need your knowledge of movies as well as your sense of humor, and for "Abbr.-ations" you'll need to decipher abbreviations to come up with the word list. In "Black Hole" puzzles, the letters in the center of the grid are missing, and once you've figured out what they are, they'll spell out a quip. A fun way to sharpen your powers of observation.

Word search puzzles don't get much better than this." —Will Shortz, Puzzlemaster for National Public Radio's "Weekend Edition"

Add a touch of wackiness to ordinary word search fun for a little extra challenge. Instead of ordinary squares and rectangles, these puzzles come in really wild shapes or have an entertaining twist. Each word search has a theme to go along with the distinctive picture; for example, a grid in the shape of a smiley face has clues that deal with being happy. A tulip puzzle features flowers as its subject. In addition, 10 puzzles have special gimmicks: in three rebuses, little symbols replace certain letter combinations (such as a picture of a teacup in place of T-E-A). “Movie Editing” plays a little game with Hollywood films, by giving them a one-word title change to create a very different plot.

Search and solve—with nearly 160 puzzles here, there’s plenty of brain-stimulating pleasure to be had! Each one of these entertaining word searches focuses on a particular subject, with many arranged in a shape suitable to the topic. For example, “Hitting Below the Belt” looks like a pair of shorts, and the words refer to things worn at or below the waist, like swimming trunks and skirt. The shamrock-shaped “Greenery Scenery” goes green with mint, moss, and Kermit the Frog. And “Things to Do While Sitting” includes fly a plane and check e-mail. All the puzzles contain a word list to guide you as you look, as well as the answers if there are a few you can’t find.

Fun grids, hidden messages, and entertaining twists that only a top puzzlemaker like Mark Danna could dream up! You’ll find all that right here, in one of the best word search collections ever. It has amazing variety, with grids that form cool pictures (like a rocket ship) to match the puzzle’s theme and extra challenges to add spice to the solving. Some searches contain rebuses to decode; others make you come up with the word list yourself; and all of them contain a secret message! Once you’ve found all the words, read the uncircled letters from left to right, and top to bottom, to spell out a fascinating fact, riddle response, or interesting observation.