Choose Your Own Adventure
Choose Your Own Adventure is a series of children's gamebooks where each story is written from a second-person point of view, with the reader assuming the role of the protagonist and making choices that determine the main character's actions and the plot's outcome. The series was based upon a concept created by Edward Packard and originally published by Constance Cappel's and R. A. Montgomery's Vermont Crossroads Press as the "Adventures of You" series, starting with Packard's Sugarcane Island in 1976.
The Cave of Time by Edward Packard, the first book in the series | |
| Cover artist | Paul Granger |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Gamebook |
| Publisher | Bantam Books |
| Published | 1979–1998 (original series) |
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| No. of books | 184 (original series) (List of books) |
Choose Your Own Adventure, as published by Bantam Books, was one of the most popular children's series during the 1980s and 1990s, selling more than 250 million copies between 1979 and 1998. When Bantam, now owned by Random House, allowed the Choose Your Own Adventure trademark to lapse, the series was relaunched by Chooseco, which now owns the trademark. Since 2016, Chooseco has sold over 16 million copies of original books, publishing many of the Classics from the 80s and 90s (updated for today's generation) and more than 50 completely new titles. The series has been translated into 40 languages. Over 270 million books are in print worldwide. Chooseco does not reissue titles by Packard, who has started his own imprint, U-Ventures.