 What? You want to return to Mommy and Daddy? You don’t want to go along with the famous Indiana Jones on an adventure through uncharted areas and unimaginable dangers in Africa, searching for a treasure never seen before by any twentieth-century man or woman! Maybe we should have given you a choice like this instead: Do you want smelling salts or a straightjacket? Because you’re either unconscious or out of your mind!You must be the kind of kid who thinks an ice cream cone with two scoops is an adventure. You probably think it’s daring to wash your hands with the lights out, don’t you?No wonder your parents paid the African warriors to kidnap you—whoops! You weren’t supposed to find that out.Okay, so now you know: Your parents paid off the neighboring tribe to kidnap you. But the tribe wasn’t going to hurt you. They were just trying to add some thrills to your dull life and keep you out of your parents’ hair for a few days.But just forget it. Close this book and go do something more your speed—like pasting vegetable can labels in a scrapbook… or figuring out how many words you can spell with the letters in the word tuna…As far as you’re concerned, this book has come to… |
