Best children interactive adventures books according to redditors
We found 126 Reddit comments discussing the best children interactive adventures books. We ranked the 43 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
Seems to be one the nightlight detective books.
Edit: for the people complaining about the price, check out this redditors series here.
I got my nephew (9 years old I think?) Dungeonology for Christmas.
Apparently he loves it.
There is a Choose Your Own Adventure book/comic called Meanwhile that blew my mind as a kid with a similar concept. If you chose to eat chocolate ice cream (the first choice), eventually you met a professor who built a machine to guarantee a coin flip will come up heads. He rigged a machine to destroy the universe if the coin is tails, so existing after pushing the button means your coin must necessarily have landed on heads. The book gets even trippier after that, but that’s what stuck with me the longest. It’s a pretty solid read in the YA section, and a basic but solid introduction to quantum mechanics.
I illustrated this book 8 years back - where each page is a new floor in a building and you have to look carefully to solve the 'whodunnit' mystery. BUT!! The real mystery was solved with a year of the book's release - we actually buried 12 diamond/silver/gold/emerald jeweled numbers (custom made4 for us, 'from the clock') in real life around the US - and each page held a picture-clue as to where to look in the real world. Those who found them first got to keep them! I think it's out of print but Amazon still sells them.
It's hard to find because he makes them by hand, but also check out "Meanwhile", published by Amulet.
http://www.amazon.com/Meanwhile-Pick-Path-Story-Possibilities/dp/0810984237/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1265263413&sr=8-1
It's a choose-your-own-adventure comic that's brilliant - you follow different paths throughout the comic, and it does some stuff with the medium I've never seen before. Super impressive.
http://www.amazon.com/Meanwhile-Pick-Path-Story-Possibilities/dp/0810984237
Really a fun book for any age.
This book is SO much fun. It’s an interactive one so more fun when they get a little older.
A fun story about sharing and the importance of friendship when you need help.
This one is a hilarious story about a mean dog falling out a window lol. It was recommended to me by a little girl at Barnes and Noble. She picked it up and said “Wanna read about the worst dog ever?” She wasn’t wrong haha.
Just a nice little rhyming bedtime story about construction equipment.
Yes, like the Raffi song! Singing books are sooo great to help get your little one interested in talking. This was one of my favorite songs as a kid but I only recently found out about the book. My son loves singing this with me.
About loving your kid no matter who they are. Although I feel like it’s slightly geared toward moms of boys, it’s great for any kid or parent (they don’t actually use pronouns for the kid in the book FYI).
About the dreams and wishes for your baby as they grow up. Definitely on the sappy side, geared a little more toward moms of girls but I read it to my son often (and cry while I do it).
Cute rhyming story about the importance of friendship and being nice to those you meet.
This one is a little older but idk if everyone has heard of it. It’s essentially an interactive book that teaches your kid that they have control of monsters. Each page pieces together a picture of a monster (it’s not a scary one), until you tell the monster to go away, and then each page takes a piece of the monster away.
The Pigeon books, Elephant and Piggie books, and Knuffle Bunny are all great. Funny for adults and engaging for kids.
(Will edit and add more later as I think of them)
If it's this one, that would be Dragonology.
Somone on the original post commented this : https://www.amazon.com/Mystery-Museum-Nightlight-Detective-Book/dp/1441312285
Found it!! This??
Haunted Castle https://www.amazon.com/dp/0789424649/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_zfaZAbMJJYZCP
Scans of entire book: https://www.behance.net/gallery/9003865/Haunted-Castle
Busy busy busy.
I'm nearing the point where I've given up querying agents for my fantasy novel, Pillars of Wrath. My plan is to finish Book 2 (which is already about half done) and self-publish both at the same time.
Oh, and my short story The Lancer won Honorable Mention in the most recent Writers of the Future Contest. I was really hoping it'd go farther than that, but I'll take what I can get. Another award to put on the wall.
This one is relatively recent and pretty awesome: Meanwhile
When my child laughs. Especially if it's something I said or did with the intent of making them giggle. "Mom, you're funny" is amazing.
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If you don't have this then you're missing out. I love acting out this book, and it's my daughter's favorite to read.
Dragonology: The Complete Book of Dragons (Ologies) https://www.amazon.com/dp/0763623296/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_g4cPCbHM6WVH4
Oh man! I love Shiga's comics, but hadn't visited his site this year. I highly recommend Meanwhile (I had to buy a physical copy) and Fleep is also very good.
This Jimmy is long on rationality and short on ethics. Looking forward to seeing where this goes.
Dragonology?
https://www.amazon.com/Dragonology-Complete-Book-Dragons-Ologies/dp/0763623296/ref=sr_1_1?crid=KRSH15SDKJU4&keywords=dragonology&qid=1554407906&s=gateway&sprefix=dragonolo%2Caps%2C190&sr=8-1
Could it be Haunted Castle by Leo Hartas?
The Amazon description is:
> "Young readers are in for the fright of their lives as they help Jodie and Johnny search for their Uncle Barnaby in the monster-filled halls of Grizzlemyst Castle, but only one symbol path leads to Barnaby, the others to ghouls, drudges, mutants, and other scary creatures."
Was it A Practical Guide to Dragons or Dragonology?
Haunted Castle?
https://www.amazon.com/Haunted-Castle-Leo-Hartas/dp/0789424649/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8
If you liked "Choose Your Own Adventure," please, for the love of all that's awesome, check out Meanwhile by Jason Shiga. It's a "choose your own" comic story that's wicked funny.
Wyverns are wyverns and dragons are dragons go read a book smh. https://www.amazon.com/Dragonology-Complete-Book-Dragons-Ologies/dp/0763623296
My oldest is three years old, and I've found that books are a great gateway to the horror media we all know and love. It started the October after he turned one, when we found "Slide and Find Spooky" at a library book sale. It was a big hit and we've since amassed a pretty good collection of similarly themed board books
Where is Baby's Pumpkin?
Eek! Halloween!
Spooky Pookie
Little Boo
Llama Llama Trick or Treat
Happy Halloween, Curious George
and picture books
Go Away, Big Green Monster!
Happy Halloween, Little Critter!
Clifford's Halloween
Berenstain Bears Trick or Treat
Berenstain Bears Go on a Ghost Walk
Bonaparte Falls Apart
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This past fall we started watching some horror-themed television and movies. Good intros were
Curious George: A Halloween Boo Fest
Hotel Transylvania
Coco
Scared Shrekless
The Nightmare Before Christmas
and especially the late sixties and late seventies iterations of Scooby-Doo. More recently we've gotten into Mystery Incorporated! (which is a treasure trove of horror references for grown-up fans, from Hellraiser's Lament Configuration and Eaten Alive's Starlight Hotel to Vincent Price and Jason Voorhees). Other kid-friendly movies that went over well have included
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
Bride of Frankenstein
The Monster Squad
Beetlejuice
and, oddly enough, Starman
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Obviously, every kid is gonna have their own preferences and move at their own speed. I've been lucky that mine gets a real kick out of "spooky" things, likes to pretend we're ghosts or monsters as we play chase, etc. One benefit of enjoying this stuff together is that we can talk about how monsters are for fun and not real, and we've watched makeup tutorials on YouTube to see how artists help actors pretend to be monsters. We have yet to go through waking up from a nightmare about any of this, and I think the conversations we've had about the imaginary nature of these things have really helped with that.
What sort of comics does she already read? What's her reading level in general?
Those questions aside:
Haunted Castle by Leo Hartas?
Many-worlds (the idea that the Universe splits every time a wavefunction collapses) is not fully falsifiable: there is no experiment you can do to show that it doesn't happen, since the outcome you experience is that your experiment worked in a conventional, allowed way. Many-worlds is confirmable in the sense that you can combine that idea with solipsism to do some truly amazing things. In particular, in a true many-worlds universe, it is impossible for you to commit suicide. All outcomes that involve both (A) you trying to commit suicide and (B) you experiencing that fact are the outcomes in which you survive. So you can do silly things like reverse entropy by massively trimming the branching tree of Universes. There are a nifty series of gedankenexperiments in the delightful non-linear graphic novella Meanwhile. But if you try the experiment and many-worlds is wrong, you end up really dying in the only real world there is -- so it's not possible to falsify the many-worlds interpretation that way. You just end up dead and not able to falsify anything.
But there is more reason to think that many-worlds is a fundamentally flawed concept. The idea of "quantum collapse" itself is a shorthand for something more nuanced: quantum decoherence. In more modern interpretations, collapse (the fundamental branchpoint of the many-worlds interpretation) is seen instead as a combination of "quantum decoherence" and "quantum ignorance" (both of which involve the wave function losing predictive power due to unknown/uncontrolled interaction with the rest of the Universe). The latter is particularly useful because it sidesteps paradoxes like the Einstein-Rosen-Podolsky paradox: in that (quantum Bayesian) view, quantum "collapse" can happen at infinite speed, because it's not actually happening in the Universe -- it's happening in the mind of the physicist doing the experiment. In those more modern understandings, there's no need for collapse to be elevated to a fundamental event as it is in many-worlds or in the Copenhagen interpretation. It is a consequence of ordinary evolution of the wavefunction.
"Meanwhile"
https://www.amazon.com/Meanwhile-Path-Possibilities-Graphic-Novels/dp/0810984237
WOOD
Cool notebook
Teachers Carry All
Love Math
Chinese jumprope at recess
School Sloth Would Be the Best Mascot
Favorite Lunch Snack
Favorite Picture Book Peanuts Rock!
Cute Cool Backpack
Waiting for Dinner
Bonus 1
In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.
edit: forgot number 3
There's a great graphic novel called "Meanwhile" that's a CYOA book. Lots of little details, oodles of possibilities.
Sorry, I forgot to come back here and check for later questions!
I don't know much about adult histories of dragons, but The Book of Dragons is pretty good for kid dragon short stories, and A Field Guide to... and A World Guide to Gnomes, Fairies, Elves, and Other Little People is pretty cute for the others. Dragonology is another, but it's more adorable than useful.
Personally, I'm a big fan of the Marsupial Dragon, but it's hard to beat the classic European Dragon. The Frost Dragon is pretty cool too though.
Reference for the confused
Actually, I'm looking around forums and stuff and it looks like you may be in luck. I don't know if this is what you're looking for, but check it out.
I'm continuing my search.
Edit: maybe this?
There's this one, though it looks like it is for very young children.
my theory/guess is that what the "Canon secret" in Gravity Falls: Dipper and Mabel and the Curse of the Time Pirates' Treasure!: A "Select Your Own Choose-Venture!" will address Alex said the book in non-canon but it has an enormous canon secret
Dragonology!
Is this it? Dragonology: The Complete Book of Dragons by Ernest Drake?
Is this it?
https://www.amazon.com/Meanwhile-Path-Possibilities-Graphic-Novels/dp/0810984237
Looks familiar!
http://www.amazon.com/Dragonology-Complete-Book-Dragons-Ologies/dp/0763623296
This?
Yeah, I bought the whole set for my kids once they were at the reading level. They're still on Amazon.
http://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Escape-Brilliant-Atlantis-Adventure/dp/193339093X/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1303571743&sr=1-4
Big Green Monster!
It's my favorite book from when I was young. It's my mom's favorite book, too! You turn the pages to see this big green scary monster appear. But as you keep turning the pages, the monster goes away! And you're safe again! "Go away big green monster! And don't come back until I say so!!" Such an awesome book!
Dragonology?
Is it this http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316236535?pc_redir=1413619540&robot_redir=1
What about if you could experience Hamlet as Hamlet's ghost dad and SOLVE YOUR OWN MURDER
http://www.amazon.com/Dragonology-Complete-Book-Dragons-Ologies/dp/0763623296
I have it in German, really amazing book, thank you for reminding me of it even if it isn't what you searched for! :D
The Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide (SCAG, for short) is rad. Brief histories of the Sword Coast and other parts of Faerun by region. Profiles on the various races and classes. Couple new class archetypes and a few new spells.
Amazon has the SCAG on sale now for 31$.
https://www.amazon.com/Sword-Coast-Adventurers-Guide-Accessory/dp/0786965800/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1487940243&sr=8-1&keywords=sword+coast+adventurer+guide
I also recommend Matt Forbeck's DUNGEONOLOGY book. It has a mini-setting manual on the Forgotten Realms (FR) but also has the best map of the Sword Coast in print to date.
https://www.amazon.com/Dungeonology-Ologies-Matt-Forbeck/dp/0763693537/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1487940329&sr=8-1&keywords=dungeonology
You can also easily ignore the mechanics of previous editions and just focus on the flavor text in the campaign setting guides.
If you can find the 3e or 4e FR Setting Guides on eBay or Half Price Books for cheap, they are pretty useful.
The Volo's Guide to series from AD&D are boss as well; V'sG: to the North, to the Dalelands, to the Sword Coast, etc. They should all be on the DMsGuild in PDF for dirt cheap.
When all else fails, look for FR setting books written by Ed Greenwood (Volo himself); Ed is the Tolkien of the Forgotten Realms.
Dragonology: The Complete Book of Dragons?
http://www.amazon.com/Meanwhile-Path-Possibilities-Graphic-Novels/dp/0810984237
this is a funny choose-your-own-adventure comic. sometimes the reader can end up "losing" and the reader's ability to naturally restart their adventure in the comic is justified as destroying parallel universes, and switching to extant universes.
i think a version of it can be found online.
http://www.amazon.com/Wheres-Complete-Collection-Martin-Handford/dp/0763641677/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1254544521&sr=8-1
Or check your local elementary school library.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1484746686?ref_=cm_sw_r_cp_awd_Udnuwb88GVKHN
I think it was "Meanwhile"
https://www.amazon.com/Meanwhile-Path-Possibilities-Graphic-Novels/dp/0810984237
Depends on budget. The starter set is <$20 on Amazon. The Player's Handbook is around $30 (or $50 at a bookstore/gaming shop). A cool set of dice in his favorite color is usually<$10. Amazon has a kind of interactive book called Dungeonology for $15. (List price is $30. We're getting a couple as gifts for friends.)
my go-to for people curious or mildly interested.
One of the Nightlight Detective books? https://www.amazon.com/Mystery-Museum-Nightlight-Detective-Book/dp/1441312285
Go Away, Big Green Monster is another one similar to this!
Journal 3
Bonus:
Dipper and Mabel and the Curse of the Time Pirate's Treasure!: Select Your Own Choose-Venture
Yeah, definitely sounds like Meanwhile by Jason Shiga https://www.amazon.com/Meanwhile-Path-Possibilities-Graphic-Novels/dp/0810984237
These all look fantastic! I would add
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316236535/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1495720962&amp;sr=8-1&amp;pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&amp;keywords=big+green+monster&amp;dpPl=1&amp;dpID=51XMV5wCq3L&amp;ref=plSrch
And
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0920303110/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1495721023&amp;sr=8-1&amp;pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&amp;keywords=mortimer+robert+munsch
You might have Munsch in your classics , but he is one of my favorites. My kids enjoyed No David by David Shannon. Pigeon books were also a favorite here.
Thanks for the list! Lots to research!
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There is a series of You Choose adventures based on fairy tales. https://www.amazon.com/Little-Red-Riding-Hood-Choose-ebook/dp/B00UVOPVSG
I had one in the series on mythology, egypt, dragons, and pirates. It camp from candlewick press if it is of the same series. I have seen that picture before and think it is in
https://www.amazon.com/Dragonology-Complete-Book-Dragons-Ologies/dp/0763623296/ref=pd_sim_14_2?ie=UTF8&amp;psc=1&amp;refRID=MGQMGA6H3Z2T43PETTG0
It has a chapter on different types of dragons and some that are in water.
The Worst-Case Scenario Ultimate Adventure Novel: Mars? Marooned on Mars?
My google query into the matter resulted in this.
Dammit, now some dude with a camera crew is telling me to go have a seat over there.
https://www.amazon.com/Meanwhile-Path-Possibilities-Graphic-Novels/dp/0810984237 ?
Meanwhile?
https://www.amazon.com/Meanwhile-Path-Possibilities-Graphic-Novels/dp/0810984237
The concept is certainly interesting, especially the gamification. That aspect might be enough to set it apart from Jason Shiga's Meanwhile: Pick Any Path. 3,856 Story Possibilities. which, for my money, is the gold standard for this type of book.
I also notice that these are translations from the French, which is a good sign. Has anyone read the originals? Do you have any insight into how well they work in practice?
I am almost certain you are talking about meanwhile. the vanilla or chocolate thing confirmed it
edit: oof, some dude got to you before i did.
You know what you need? You need a book. A book about DRAGONS. Why? BECAUSE MOTHER FREAKIN' DRAGONS, THAT'S WHY. DRAGONS ARE AWESOME AND SO ARE YOU.
SO BUY YOURSELF THIS FREAKIN' AWESOME BOOK, YO
This it?
I can't see the link you provided for some reason, but Vampireology?
Ghost Island? https://www.amazon.com/Ghost-Island-Choose-Your-Adventure/dp/1933390573
Go Away, Big Green Monster?
Dragonology?
Where's Waldo? The Complete Collection
Dragonology?
This is an excerpt from an official book, which can be purchased here