Ad for Choose Your Own Adventure in Muppet Magazine issue 7
Choose Your Own Adventure is an interactive children's book series (often termed gamebooks) originally published by Bantam Books from 1979 to 1998. The format places the reader as a second person protagonist who gets caught up in harrowing circumstances or a challenging predicament. Decisions made would lead to branching events on non-chronological pages, often resulting in doom or death.
Bantam launched its own subseries and spinoffs, such as the Time Machine books, and other publishers would use the form over the years (without the specific Choose Your Own Adventure branding), such as Ballantine's Find Your Fate series (with Indiana Jones, James Bond, and others). Other branded series featured Carmen Sandiego and Nintendo characters.
The form was used on occasion for Muppet books as well. The first, 1984's You Are the Star of a Muppet Adventure, came during the heyday of the book form. Author Ellen Weiss also contributed to the Find Your Fate books. The 1996 book Find Your Way to Muppet Treasure Island also used the format.
Full page ads for the original Choose Your Own Adventure books appeared in Muppet Magazine issue 7 and issue 9 (promoting the Time Machine series as well).
References[]
- Rowlf covers the Choose Your Own Adventure series in his "Rowlf on Books" column in Muppet Magazine issue 2.
Connections[]
- Dee Bradley Baker voiced Bucky in Choose Your Own Adventure: The Abominable Snowman (2006 DVD)
- Sara Compton wrote Choose Your Own Adventure for Younger Readers book #50 (Stranded, 1989) and the main CYOA book #114 (Daredevil Park, 1991, co-written with son Spencer Compton)
- Mark Hamill voiced Jamling in Choose Your Own Adventure: The Abominable Snowman (2006 DVD)
- Phil LaMarr voiced Pasang in Choose Your Own Adventure: The Abominable Snowman (2006 DVD)
- William H. Macy voiced Rudyard North in Choose Your Own Adventure: The Abominable Snowman (2006 DVD)
- James Razzi wrote three Choose Your Own Adventure for Younger Readers (1983-1985) and all of the Walt Disney Choose Your Own Adventure line (1985-1987)