Choose Your Own Adventure
- dane
- May 24, 2018
- 2 min read
What if you got to make decisions in a story that impacted the outcome and shaped the narrative? This level of autonomy and control in a story may be just the thing your child needs to become more invested in reading. In this post, I've included some apps and programs that allow children offer a "choose your own adventure" style of reading.
In Timecrest, where epic fantasy meets interactive fiction, author Lisa J. Skye introduces you to Ash Elden, where together you both must scramble to solve the puzzle of who unfroze the meteors to destroy Ash’s world of Alyncia. You discover that you have access to a forbidden magic–the ability to turn back time. Every choice you make matters, and will change the outcome of this massive 225,000-word interactive story, leading to one of multiple endings. Immersive yourself within the emotional soundtrack and explore the non-linear maps. (Age 9+)
A Defender’s Tale is a personalized adventure book for the iPad where you choose your own pathway, collect items, play games, and strive to save the realm. (Age 9+)
This app is a new take on the classic fairytale: users can create their own story by choosing from multiple paths along the way, resulting in a new, fully-animated adventure with different endings every time. Built with user-generated narrative structure that immerses a child in the story, Little Red Riding Hood re-invents interactive storytelling. Readers play games to help Little Red Riding Hood collect three different objects in the course of her journey through the woods, choosing what items to gather at forks in the path. These objects determine how Little Red Riding Hood defeats the Big Bad Wolf and saves Grandma. (Age 4+)
Yarn lets you read thrilling, interactive stories on your device, for free. Solve puzzles, help characters make important decisions, and decide how stories end. Yarn stories fall somewhere between traditional books and video games. They're delivered one passage at a time and come to life with images, animations and sound. Some even unfold in real time. (Age 12+)
A bilingual book for children to learn to read and learn Spanish: Children can read it, with or without audio, in Spanish or English. The app highlights the words to help with reading. An interactive experience for children from 4 to 8 years with sounds, music and animation... The reader can choose the order of the scenes and what happens in them. (Age 4+)
This is an interactive book with multiple endings. The reader’s decisions change and trigger new situations and a different ending. This book is about a monster which thrives on a diet of little girls, cats and toys, lurks on the roof of a nine year old girl’s home. The story contains images, music, decisions and multiple endings. (Age 4+)
In this book, children can choose their own hero and story and decide if the story is funny, happy or sad. There are 27 possible story outcomes. (Ages 2-6)
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