Family Home Evening is on Me This Week

Here's a fun General Conference recap you can print off and use for Family Home Evening.

And remember for lots more activities, puzzles, and mazes; my books The Puzzle Book for LDS Kids and The A-MAZE-ing Book of Mormon are available in finer LDS bookstores everywhere.

Errata

In the publishing world, I believe they're called errata. They're the mistakes that inevitably show up in the printed word. And, sure enough, I've found a couple in The Puzzle Book for LDS Kids. For those of you who have already purchased your copy(ies), please print out the this blog entry and carefully glue it into the front of your book. For those of you who haven't purchased the book, you might want to hurry and do so. (After we get these all fixed for the inevitable second printing, this edition will be as valuable as a rare first edition Mormon Doctrine.)

Errata
The Puzzle Book for LDS Kids

Pages 38, 77, and 83 - Signature partially cut off.

Pages 18 and 32 - Sentences end in a preposition.

Page 74 and cover - Peter, James, and John likely were fishing with nets not poles.

Page 83 - There is no documented record of Brigham Young presenting a key to the city to a flock of seagulls for saving Mormon crops from crickets; however, Salt Lake City Mayor Ted Wilson partially rectified this egregious oversight when he presented a key to the city to the syntha-pop band Flock of Seagulls in 1982.

Page 30 - The frogs drawn in a picture representing Moses and the plague of frogs upon Egypt are clearly Adenomera araucaria, which--as everyone knows--are indigenous to South America.

Page 9 - The Elders are teaching a single, elderly sister despite the fact that there are Sister missionaries in their zone that could be teaching her.

Pages 3 through 91 - Human beings typically have five fingers on their hands not four.

Just What's Inside The Puzzle Book for LDS Kids?

So The Puzzle Book for LDS Kids has been in bookstores for two weeks now and it's still not showing up on the New York Times bestseller list. Clearly, something is wrong here.

Look, I know that times are tough and maybe you've been burned on so-called "activity books" in the past (you know the type with nothing more than a couple of word searches, a few dot to dots, and that awful page where you're asked to make as many words from another word as you can (as an aweful spailler I reelly haite those things (thank heavens for word processors (this may be the most parentheses inside parentheses ever)))), but my book is different!

The Puzzle Book for LDS Kids is 96 pages of original art and not a single lazy activity book cliche in the bunch (well except for that one on page 82, but, come on, I was on deadline). It's good stuff guaranteed to keep your child quiet for up to a month of Sacrament Meetings--and can you really put a price on that? (And if you could, wouldn't it be more than the $10 asking price?)

To give you a little flavor of the book, I'm posting an example of the type of puzzle you'll find in the book. And the best part is: the following puzzle isn't even in the book, so you're still getting 96 pages of new stuff. (As always, click on the image for a larger view.)

Guess What's Now in Bookstores?

So, I wandered through the aisles of my local Deseret Bookstore and found shiny, new copies of The Puzzle Book for LDS Kids on the shelves. I received my copy from my publisher a couple of weeks ago, so I've been anxiously awaiting its arrival by checking in on the bookstore every couple of days.

Finding it in the bookstore, though, I didn't quite know what to do with myself. Should I pick one up and flip through it, alert other shoppers that this is a book for them, or play it cool? Ultimately, I slipped out of the store with a goofy smile on my face. Someday I might get up the nerve to introduce myself to an employee, ask for a pen, and start an impromptu book signing. Chances are, though, any book signing would turn out like the faux Far Side comic strip I drew as part of my family's end-of-the-year Christmas letter.

In the chance event that you stumble upon one of my books in a bookstore: if you see a guy grinning stupidly at you as you flip through the pages; come say hi, would ya?