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tinapatina's review
5.0
Have read this books a million times this year. My students absolutely love it! Whenever we have a read aloud and I tell them they can choose one of the choose your own adventure books, this one is the one that ALWAYS gets picked out. It's fairly bizarre but kids still love it.
kerrianne's review
5.0
This book is such a tangible piece of my childhood. It was published the January after I was born, and was the first (and I think only) Choose Your Own Adventure book I ever owned. I must have read this book 100 times in elementary school. At least.
This book, like seemingly all CYOA books, is also a total acid trip in places, which didn't bother me as a kid when I first read it and only made me laugh harder re-reading it as an adult.
CYOA books are legion (and legend in some book nerderrific circles, yes?), but in my utterly biased opinion this one is the best one. It's also one of the oldest.
I adored the illustrations as a child, and I still adore them now because they're wonderful. They're also super strange, because I think it's a rule that all CYOA books have to be bizarre, not only in the choices you get to make, but in the creatures you meet and adventures you take along the way.
Want to talk to giant rats, endlessly lose (and find) your dog every other page, befriend a ghost, and also maybe float away on a sunbeam? This book has you covered.
[Five stars for nostalgia, for indecisive whimsy, and for the original and best haunted house of my childhood.]
This book, like seemingly all CYOA books, is also a total acid trip in places, which didn't bother me as a kid when I first read it and only made me laugh harder re-reading it as an adult.
CYOA books are legion (and legend in some book nerderrific circles, yes?), but in my utterly biased opinion this one is the best one. It's also one of the oldest.
I adored the illustrations as a child, and I still adore them now because they're wonderful. They're also super strange, because I think it's a rule that all CYOA books have to be bizarre, not only in the choices you get to make, but in the creatures you meet and adventures you take along the way.
Want to talk to giant rats, endlessly lose (and find) your dog every other page, befriend a ghost, and also maybe float away on a sunbeam? This book has you covered.
[Five stars for nostalgia, for indecisive whimsy, and for the original and best haunted house of my childhood.]
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