Authors Card Game

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Summary: AUTHORS CARD GAME
Review: Authors was my favorite card game as a child (and still is)and I was thrilled to find my kids (now 13 and 11, but we've been playing it for years) love it as much as I did. It plays like Go Fish but way more challenging because you don't just ask for William Shakespeare but Hamlet by William Shakespeare and if they have Julius Caesar instead, well watch out for your Romeo and Juliet! My kids coined "GO READ" as the response to a wrong guess.This game familiarized me with the names and works of many great authors and I went on to read most of these titles out of curiosity. A family favorite I'm here to replace my original extremely dog-eared deck today.

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Summary: Authors Card Game
Review: Authors was my favorite card game as a child (and still is)and I was thrilled to find my kids (now 13 and 11, but we've been playing it for years) love it as much as I did. It plays like Go Fish but way more challenging because you don't just ask for William Shakespeare but Hamlet by William Shakespeare and if they have Julius Caesar instead, well watch out for your Romeo and Juliet! My kids coined "GO READ" as the response to a wrong guess.This game familiarized me with the names and works of many great authors and I went on to read most of these titles out of curiosity. A family favorite I'm here to replace my original extremely dog-eared deck today.

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Summary: AUTHORS CARD GAME
Review: Our parents bought this card game for us when we were youngsters. I am now 53 years old and a grandmother. I am so glad that we were "poor" back then and had to stay home and play this game and read books. This game is a great learning tool, it is played basically like "fish", but you start memorizing the classics and their author. Everyone should buy and play this game with their children.

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Summary: Authors That Shaped My Life
Review: The "Authors" card game of my youth helped me through many a sticky situation. I have been brilliant at cocktail parties when I could recall that Longfellow wrote the "Song of Hiawatha". I have breezed through crossword puzzles with my arcane knowledge of Nathaniel Hawthorne. I am familiar with more Louisa May Alcott titles than just "Little Women". And now I am introducing my children to the classics. We just flew home to Florida from Boston, and my children (ages 9 and 10) and husband (who was an English major in college and was thrilled to have his memory jogged) played the "Authors" game while I was able to read the latest Elizabeth George. The three of them were engaged in lively (and quiet) play for more than a hour! The sign of a truly groovy game. The flight attendant took note of the game for her 10 year old son. This is a wonderful game which introduces the names and titles of books which everyone should read, and now, maybe another generation will.

Drawbacks: the art is too small to be appreciated; not enough graphic impact. The type for both the authors's names and the book titles is also much too small. I might be a baby boomer who has just started wearing reading glasses, but even my 9 year old had trouble with the unfamiliar names in the bitsy type.

Rating:
Summary: Authors That Shaped My Life
Review: The "Authors" card game of my youth helped me through many a sticky situation. I have been brilliant at cocktail parties when I could recall that Longfellow wrote the "Song of Hiawatha". I have breezed through crossword puzzles with my arcane knowledge of Nathaniel Hawthorne. I am familiar with more Louisa May Alcott titles than just "Little Women". And now I am introducing my children to the classics. We just flew home to Florida from Boston, and my children (ages 9 and 10) and husband (who was an English major in college and was thrilled to have his memory jogged) played the "Authors" game while I was able to read the latest Elizabeth George. The three of them were engaged in lively (and quiet) play for more than a hour! The sign of a truly groovy game. The flight attendant took note of the game for her 10 year old son. This is a wonderful game which introduces the names and titles of books which everyone should read, and now, maybe another generation will.

Drawbacks: the art is too small to be appreciated; not enough graphic impact. The type for both the authors's names and the book titles is also much too small. I might be a baby boomer who has just started wearing reading glasses, but even my 9 year old had trouble with the unfamiliar names in the bitsy type.