Choose Your Own Adventure 6- Book Boxed Set #1 (the Abominable Snowman, Journey Under the Sea, Space and Beyond, the Lost Jewels of Nabooti, Mystery of the Maya, House of Danger)

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It is a very modern, very immersive form of storytelling – the branching narrative – and the Choose Your Own Adventure series has been introducing kids to the most basic form of the branching narrative since 1979. A ninja in feudal Japan who is a soldier for hire, you can choose to lay siege to a castle, defend your home province from an army or act as a bodyguard to a powerful lord.

And, if you don’t like your ending, you’re encouraged to re-read the book, make different choices, and follow a different path to a different ending.But together they were responsible for many of the most beloved titles in the series: Packard’s “The Cave of Time,” “Your Code Name Is Jonah,” “Who Killed Harlowe Thrombey?

Choose Your Own Adventure, as published by Bantam Books, was one of the most popular children's series during the 1980s and 1990s, selling more than 250 million copies between 1979 and 1998.When his daughters were young, Packard told them bedtime stories about a boy named Pete, a literary alter ego of Andrea’s. Packard laments the portions of his life that he spent “sleepwalking,” a state he compares to “floating downstream on a river raft .

The warning at the beginning of every Choose Your Own Adventure is also a promise: “You are responsible because you choose! Kids will have to make choices and solve problems like plot points, factors, polynomials, and percents, concepts from Algebra I. The last one I read as an adult was Cinderella, Ninja Warrior, so I was excited to read ones which seemed actually well done. Stories are generally gender- and race-neutral, though in some cases, particularly in illustrations, there is the presumption of a male reader (the target demographic group). Montgomery and his wife separated (as Packard tells it, “she got the house, he got ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ ”); and both men tried (separately) to take the Choose Your Own Adventure concept to larger publishers.They’re written from the rarely-used second-person point-of-view – so the narrator is always referring to the reader as “You. The most explicitly metafictional of all the Choose books is Packard’s “Hyperspace,” which reads like a book that has grown tired of following the rules. This book could serve as a terrific introduction to Shakespeare’s famous play, or even as an accompaniment for older children studying the work. We invite users to post interesting questions about the UK that create informative, good to read, insightful, helpful, or light-hearted discussions.