Princess Island

Princess Perri Choose Your Own Adventure #1

by Shannon Gilligan

Meet Princess Peregrine Yvette (aka "Princess Dirt"), who has the manners of a gentle lady but the kneecaps of a troll. Her mother plans to send her off to princess camp on Princess Island for outdoor adventure and a bit of polishing up on the royal skills, but Princess Dirt's heart is in the wilds of nature. YOU can decide to behave like a royal or embrace the dirt within you.

Princess Island is the first Princess Perri adventure, followed by another summer of fun in Princess Perri and the Second Summer.

Genres: Childrens

83 pages, Paperback

Published December 1, 2015

About the author

Shannon Gilligan began writing fiction for a living after graduating from Williams College in 1981. She has written over fifteen books for children, including eleven in the Choose Your Own Adventure series. Her work has been translated into more than twenty languages. She spent a decade working on story-based computer games in the 1990s. Gilligan's day job is publisher of Chooseco, a company she co-founded alongside her late husband, R.A. Montgomery. She lives in Warren, Vermont, but travels widely.

Reviews

[Angie · Rating 2 out of 5]

I was excited about the first every Choose Your Own Adventure with a distinctly female voice. But why does it need to be so girly? Come on, Princess Island? And where are all the princesses of color?

[B. · Rating 3 out of 5]

I tried reading this to my daughter when she was younger to get her into the concept of choose your own adventure books. She didn’t get into it. But at 8 she likes the format but this book is now rather simple for her. But she read it all herself to get every ending and as someone who has come into reading a little slower than her peers that makes me exceedingly happy. I read one of the arcs to her and it was just dull but I’m not the target audience.

[Becca · Rating 3 out of 5]

My daughter's first experience with a CYOA book. She liked it, and the colorful pictures were fun, but there wasn't that much of a choice with the adventure: "Do I look for my camp counselor or a unicorn I already saw?"

[Anna · Rating 3 out of 5]

So I think its cute but not my style I was not a huge fan

[Gail · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.25

[H L · Rating 1 out of 5]

Got this for my 2 girls to introduce them to the close-your-own-adventure genre I loved as a kid, but was very disappointed. The adventures were few & not that exciting.