Last week I covered an educational travel activity workbook for kids. This week, it’s all about having fun. There’s no educational merit here (unless you consider any and all reading to be educational — from the Sunday comics to cereal boxes — and I do).

The Would You Rather…? series of books from Seven Footer Press each contain more than 300 questions designed to promote conversation, entice giggles, and in some instances, bring on a bit of nausea. That is, if you have a weak stomach and two silly kids in the backseat of your car reading questions from the “Doubly Disgusting” and “Gross-Out” editions ($9.95). For example, on our recent multi-state road trip, everyone in the car had to answer:

• Would you rather have 20-inch nostril hair or 20-inch-long toenails?
• Would you rather suck in air with the force of a vacuum when yawning or have blow-dryer strength farts?
• Would you rather lick your friend’s chicken pox or use Tabasco sauce eye drops?
• Would you rather suck every drop of sweat from the socks of the Dallas Cowboys after a game or eat a sandwich wrap made from shedded snake-skin filled with a mixture of fingernail clippings?

Just typing that last one made my stomach turn. But they’re not all totally nasty questions. Consider these sort-of silly ones:

• Would you rather have glow-in-the-dark veins or only be able to watch one TV show for the rest of your life: Dora the Explorer.
• Would you rather be able to fly, but only see in black and white or be able to be invisible, but lose the ability to see and taste?

Scintillating stuff! Who thinks of these questions anyway? Actually, your kids can write their own in the spaces provided at the end of these paperback books. That’s always fun — trying to come up with your own bizarre scenarios.

Plus, each book has funny cartoons illustrating some of the crazy, hypothetical situations presented. One drawing of a kid flying through Burger King (don’t ask) prompted huge belly laughs from my kids. Weeks later, when either of them says “Burger King” in a funny voice, they erupt in laughter.

And frankly, any travel activity that brings on laughs while helping to pass the time on a long car ride gets a huge thumb’s up from me. I’d recommend these two Would You Rather…? books for children any day of the week. Also see the “BFF” version ($9.95) for high-school-age girls, and decidedly grown-up versions, too, like the, er, “Ultimate Sex Edition” ($12.95) which contains “more than 700 ludicrously lustful dilemmas to ponder.”

Browse all options at Seven Footer Press and look for discounts at Amazon.com.

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