The Parents Party Book: Fun and Fabulous Theme Birthday Parties for Children 2 to 8 Years Old, (author); Golden Books Parents Library, 1999. 176 pages with illustrations; $15.00.

Ideas for forty fabulous theme birthday parties—sure to please the kids, easy and affordable for parents.

Provides all the ingredients you’ll need for years of perfect birthday parties, such as…

• Bears Best Birthday, where kids are cubs, and share a teddy bear picnic
• Rain Forest Party, with jungle animal charades and cake stenciled with ferns
• Backwards Birthday, that starts with an invitation that must be read in the mirror and gets sillier and funnier with each game
• Dinosaurs Rule! Where children play T-Rex tag and make fossil stepping stones
• Island Party, where guests join a reggae band, limbo line, and hula hoop challenge