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Choose Your Own Adventure: Your First Adventure - Space and Beyond
Choose Your Own Your First Adventure -Space and Beyond by R. A. Montgomery takes YOU up, up, and away to outer space! Readers of all ages will explore outer space while searching for a new planet to call home. YOU live on a spaceship in outer space. Your parents are from two very different Planet Croyd and Planet Kenda. It's up to you to decide which planet you will live on. You travel through space, marvel at stars, and make new friends while exploring both planets and what they have to offer. Which planet will YOU choose? Adapted from the bestselling Choose Your Own Adventure book where YOU choose what happens next to reach three happy endings. Illustrated by French artist Kalon Sardin. For readers who enjoyed other titles from the Choose Your Own Your First Adventure series, Choose Your Own Your First Adventure - The Abominable Snowman by R. A. Montgomery and Choose Your Own Your First Adventure - Journey Under The Sea by R. A. Montgomery.
30 pages, Board book
Published September 1, 2020
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About the author
R.A. Montgomery
156 books122 followersRaymond A. Montgomery (born 1936 in Connecticut) was an author and progenitor of the classic Choose Your Own Adventure interactive children's book series, which ran from 1979 to 2003. Montgomery graduated from Williams College and went to graduate school at Yale University and New York University (NYU). He devoted his life to teaching and education.
In 2004, he co-founded the Chooseco publishing company alongside his wife, fellow author/publisher Shannon Gilligan, with the goal of reviving the CYOA series with new novels and reissued editions of the classics.
He continued to write and publish until his death in 2014.
In 2004, he co-founded the Chooseco publishing company alongside his wife, fellow author/publisher Shannon Gilligan, with the goal of reviving the CYOA series with new novels and reissued editions of the classics.
He continued to write and publish until his death in 2014.
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December 1, 2020
For the toddler set, this board book is a perfect introduction to R. A. Montgomery’s Choose Your Own Adventure book series, and adaptation of the fourth book in the series. You have parents who come from two different planets, and you have to decide which planet to go to. Then you decide if you will take a friend. Those are the only choice trees, but that’s enough for toddlers. The illustrations are cute and colorful and happy.
My only complaint about it is that the beauty of CYOA books is that you put yourself in the protagonist role. In the illustrations for this book, the child, “you,” is portrayed as a white curly red-head who may be any gender, taking away some of the fun of imagining yourself as the character. Only some of the pages show this child, and the white/red hair is clearly supposed to show that the child got their hair and skin color from their mom, as all the Croydians are white with red hair. But it’s still a minor thing that could have been dealt with easily in the illustrations. (For the record, Dad is darker-skinned with straight black hair, as all the Kendaians are. And there are lots of baby monkeys on Kenda. Take what you will from that.)
My only complaint about it is that the beauty of CYOA books is that you put yourself in the protagonist role. In the illustrations for this book, the child, “you,” is portrayed as a white curly red-head who may be any gender, taking away some of the fun of imagining yourself as the character. Only some of the pages show this child, and the white/red hair is clearly supposed to show that the child got their hair and skin color from their mom, as all the Croydians are white with red hair. But it’s still a minor thing that could have been dealt with easily in the illustrations. (For the record, Dad is darker-skinned with straight black hair, as all the Kendaians are. And there are lots of baby monkeys on Kenda. Take what you will from that.)
July 8, 2021
A choose your own adventure book for toddlers and preschoolers?! So fun!
February 26, 2023
Julianna read this book to me with help. Her 1st choose your own adventure book & she gave it 5 stars. :-)
May 26, 2022
So, this one is a choose-your-own-adventure book for young readers. The art is well done and the explanation of how to make choices is really clear. It's borderline nonsensical though. The choices are arbitrary and every single one is a choice between a dead-end or continuing to the next choice. I really had hoped there would be at least a few branches in this decision tree instead of a simple staircase. This was a favorite of my six-year-old for a while, however I was forced to read the book from front to back, never making choices, and rather treating it like an even-more nonsensical story than it actually is.
September 28, 2021
The chose your own adventure board books are super cute. I liked the different endings and each little adventure was well done. All around this is a great series and I love the board books as a way to introduce this to the youngest adventurers. The different planet options in this story are fun and well done. Its a great happy story any path you choose.
December 28, 2021
A fantastic adventure of little bits in this space adventure with multiple adventures. Love this.
August 23, 2024
Cute board book version of a choose your own adventure!
February 22, 2023
Love the illustrations and the fact that it is a choose your own adventure, however with it being a board book the flipping of the pages to find where to go next isn't super easy while holding a baby / young child. It also felt a little short for a 'choose your own adventure' style book.
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