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kelleemoye's review against another edition
5.0
Full review with teaching tools: http://www.unleashingreaders.com/?p=13682
I loved Choose Your Own Adventure books when I was younger because it made you part of the story to an extent that other books didn’t because you get to be the actual creator of the plot. Story Path does just this but for a younger audience! The author set up the book in a very friendly way that gives lots of options but also is easy to follow. On each page, the story continues with a beginning of a sentence like “One day, they were riding along on their…” and the reader then gets to pick from a set of illustrations. This spread includes options like a two-headed dragon, rocket ship, horse, boat, or an elephant. Then after the choice is made, the author included guiding questions to ask the reader like “What did you choose? What noise did it make? How fast was it? Where were they going?” This helps add even more to the story that the reader is creating.
I loved Choose Your Own Adventure books when I was younger because it made you part of the story to an extent that other books didn’t because you get to be the actual creator of the plot. Story Path does just this but for a younger audience! The author set up the book in a very friendly way that gives lots of options but also is easy to follow. On each page, the story continues with a beginning of a sentence like “One day, they were riding along on their…” and the reader then gets to pick from a set of illustrations. This spread includes options like a two-headed dragon, rocket ship, horse, boat, or an elephant. Then after the choice is made, the author included guiding questions to ask the reader like “What did you choose? What noise did it make? How fast was it? Where were they going?” This helps add even more to the story that the reader is creating.
mat_tobin's review
4.0
This is an innovative and well-thought out storybook which could be considered, in the loosest terms, as something akin to the old, yet deeply wonderful, Jackson and Livingstone 'Choose Your Own Adventure books'. Each page, A3 in size has all the ingredients to take the reader upon a quest of their choosing. Using their eyes or their fingers ( my son wanted to trace the path with his fingers each time) the reader chooses a path and this creates the framework for a story which culminates as the pages are turned.
What I found from playing with this book with my son (3) was how rich the discussion was around the elements of the story he was creating with the prompts and how often he wanted to explore and tell his own stories without me. Because the framework of the storytelling is as simple or as complicated as you want to make it, it means that it is extremely accessible and, equally, has the potential to be diverse and rich in planning. A great starting point for those children who find it difficult to build up language when telling stories; a super paired reading opportunity where children can create stories together and also just a lot of fun. I would absolutely have this in my class from Foundation all the way to KS2 (Year 4)
What I found from playing with this book with my son (3) was how rich the discussion was around the elements of the story he was creating with the prompts and how often he wanted to explore and tell his own stories without me. Because the framework of the storytelling is as simple or as complicated as you want to make it, it means that it is extremely accessible and, equally, has the potential to be diverse and rich in planning. A great starting point for those children who find it difficult to build up language when telling stories; a super paired reading opportunity where children can create stories together and also just a lot of fun. I would absolutely have this in my class from Foundation all the way to KS2 (Year 4)
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