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La serie de Elige tu propia aventura es, literalmente, un clásico de nuestra infancia. He releído algunos, años después, y me parecen un poco cortos de miras, limitados en las posibilidades, pero cuando tenía 10 años cada uno de ellos era una maravilla lista para ser explorada hasta que hubiera dado todo lo que tenía dentro.Al final siempre sabías que ibas a recorrer todos y cada uno de los caminos posibles. La emoción estaba, por tanto, en ganar y pasarte la historia al primer intento. Si no po...
I have never seen more middle schoolers so engaged in a read aloud. I started reading Choose Your Own Adventure with my kids that hated to read. I thought it would be a quick silly read to show them books can be fun. They were hooked, each decision was painstakingly thought out. I did not expect so many mini lessons to fit, they predicted what would happen with possible choices. They used all the characterization tools to decide who was the villian. They talked about the authors voice and my kid...
Ah, Choose Your Own Adventure, that paper bridge between that 5th grade fantasy map (see my Hobbit review) and my life-changing discovery of Dungeons & Dragons in the 7th grade.Some of them were great, some punishing, some arbitrary, but they revealed to me for the first time that I could make choices and that they had immediate effect the course on my (fictional) reality. For a kid whose home life felt largely hopeless and inescapable, the empowerment of making my own way by the power of my own...
Another standout Choose Your Own Adventure books we had as a kid. Loved Robin Hood so this ticked a lot of boxes too.
The 'Choose your own adventure' series, Outlaws of Sherwood Forest... in these books the reader gets to be the central character by choosing what path the tale follows through a variety of endings...
Definitely need to read more books like this, loved the interactivity! My first ever choose your own adventure book - I really liked the theme. It sort of feels bad though when you choose a decision you wouldn't normally just to see the results!
As far as I'm concerened you can't really go wrong with Choose Your Own adventure stories, even the bad ones have their good points and provide hours of escapist entertainment, but the combination of Choose Your Own AND Robin Hood??? Whoever thought up this genius combination should be awarded a knighthood immediately - I think i got this book out of the library more than any other over a period of about 8 years!
These books were such a wonderful and engaging idea for a kid- I loved reading them!
Another entry in the interminable game-book series. This one starts off somewhat incongruously with the reader playing a bratty American kid at a summer camp who finds himself transported to medieval Sherwood Forest one night. What follows is a mixed bag of cliches set in the Robin Hood universe. There are villains a-plenty, along with Merry Men and arrow action in the wood. I found that the various narratives are all quite short here, with the emphasis once again being on having multiple ending...
A trip down memory lane - I used to love these when I was a kid. Turns out they're very plot driven and not very well written, but I can see how the perception of choice was appealing. There wasn't as much crossover from one story-line to another as I'd remembered/imagined, just a line of options branching out like a tree.
Outlaws of Sherwood Forest (CYOA #47) starts off with the narrator, a boy at summer camp, searching for a missing arrow he fired and then being transported back to the time of Robin Hood via a fairy ring of flowers. I'm not sure why you couldn't just be a kid in the times of Robin hood to begin with because these aren't long books obviously so getting right to the action is preferable to me. Though then I wouldn't have learned about the power of fairy rings of flowers.Before reading the book I t...
I enjoyed this one a lot. The plot is mostly random events, but they actually tie together pretty well. Tight writing and a lot of good scenes. Your character gets transported back to the time of Robin Hood and you join his band. The author manages to weave in a lot of references to stuff like the Black Knight and the Canterbury Tales. Interesting stuff, if that's what you're interested in.