{"id":1349,"date":"2012-02-29T09:16:32","date_gmt":"2012-02-29T15:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/?p=1349"},"modified":"2012-02-29T09:16:32","modified_gmt":"2012-02-29T15:16:32","slug":"choose-your-own-adventure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christineamsden.com\/wordpress\/?p=1349","title":{"rendered":"Choose Your Own Adventure"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week, when I reviewed Can You Survive the Zombie Apocalypse?<\/a>, I mentioned my love of “Choose Your Own Adventure” books, but I had no idea that the old series was back, this time published through a new company called Chooseco. A representative of the company contacted me after seeing my (fairly negative) review of the zombie book, wondering if I’d like to give their new zombie book a try, and of course I did! (Note: I am under no obligation to give a positive review, and wouldn’t have accepted the books if I were.)<\/p>\n

But wait, it gets better! I mentioned that I have a 6-year-old at home, so Chooseco sent me two additional books geared toward a younger audience. I started reading “Choose Your Own Adventure” in late elementary school, so I didn’t even realize there were books for younger children. Well, they had them back then, and they have them now — they’re called Dragonlarks, and they are designed for young elementary school children. They’re safer (with no truly bad endings), shorter, and contain more pictures.<\/p>\n

Here are the three books I received:
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I’ve already read through The Haunted House<\/em> with my kids a couple of times, and will have the review up later this week. Today, I just wanted to share my excitement over the rebirth of this series, and the fact that I can already read it with my kids! <\/p>\n

I admit that I’m a little nervous about reviewing children’s books on my blog. I’m sure you’ve noticed that I usually stick to adult or young adult (teen). But I do have children, and I read to them, and I have some definite opinions on which ones I like, so I suppose that makes me qualified to give an honest opinion. (At least, that’s what I tell the people taking my workshops when they feel nervous about critiquing other’s manuscripts.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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