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Crazy Eights: And Other Card Games

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The best-ever kids' introduction to card games is back in print! Joanna Cole and Stephanie Calmenson's clear, step-by-step explanations, along with Alan Tiegreen's spunky illustrations and diagrams, make each game easy to understand and play. With 20 card games to choose from, including basic solitaire games like Aces Up and group games from Go Fish to Poker, there's something for everyone. Games like Snap and Concentration help improve math and memory skills, while fast-moving Slapjack and I Doubt It will have kids up out of their seats.

Author Biography: Joanna Cole is the author of the best-selling Magic School Bus series. She lives in Connecticut.

Stephanie Calmenson is the author of over 50 books for children including The Principal's New Clothes. She lives in New York City and Long Island.

Alan Tiegreen has illustrated Lucky 13: Solitaire Games for Kids, as well as more than a dozen other books for young readers. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

76 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1994

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Joanna Cole

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Joanna Cole, who also wrote under the pseudonym B. J. Barnet, was an author of children’s books who teaches science.

She is most famous as the author of The Magic School Bus series of children's books. Joanna Cole wrote over 250 books ranging from her first book Cockroach to her famous series Magic School Bus.

Cole was born in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in nearby East Orange. She loved science as a child, and had a teacher she says was a little like Ms. Frizzle. She attended the University of Massachusetts and Indiana University before graduating from the City College of New York with a B.A. in psychology. After some graduate education courses, she spent a year as a librarian in a Brooklyn elementary school. Cole subsequently became a letters correspondent at Newsweek, and then a senior editor for Doubleday Books for Young Readers.

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Easy children's card games for one and more. Lily, Nora and I tried out a few.
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