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R.A. Montgomery is an avid adventurer, first and foremost. Whether in the mountains, or on the sea, or in explorations of the mind, he has found adventure in every aspect of his life. Teaching school, working in the administration of a top university, hiking in the Himalayas, or working in the Peace Corps in Africa, Montgomery has taken making choices seriously. Montgomery says, "There is never a day in which you are not confronted with choice. Some seemingly small choices can determine the path of the rest of your life. CYOA gave me a vehicle for examining all the impacts of choice."
He was born in Greenwich, Connecticut in 1936. One of his first memories is sitting in his high chair and being frightened of Jell-O, which he thought was alive. He attended Hopkins Grammar School, the oldest private school in the country (founded in 1660), and Williston Academy. He got his college degree from Williams in 1958, and did graduate school at Yale and NYU.
Choose Your Own Adventure® books reflect his diverse interests and values. Montgomery states, "More than anything else, everyone should have the freedom to express themselves. Second to that, everyone should take risks and be willing to fail. Picking yourself up off the mat is the central business of life."
Today R.A. Montgomery lives in north central Vermont, where he is CEO of the small publishing house that has re-introduced the CYOA series. He travels frequently to Asia and Europe. Although his technical climbing days are kaput.
For games, activities and other fun stuff, or to contact R.A. Montgomery, visit us online at www.cyoa.com.
He was born in Greenwich, Connecticut in 1936. One of his first memories is sitting in his high chair and being frightened of Jell-O, which he thought was alive. He attended Hopkins Grammar School, the oldest private school in the country (founded in 1660), and Williston Academy. He got his college degree from Williams in 1958, and did graduate school at Yale and NYU.
Choose Your Own Adventure® books reflect his diverse interests and values. Montgomery states, "More than anything else, everyone should have the freedom to express themselves. Second to that, everyone should take risks and be willing to fail. Picking yourself up off the mat is the central business of life."
Today R.A. Montgomery lives in north central Vermont, where he is CEO of the small publishing house that has re-introduced the CYOA series. He travels frequently to Asia and Europe. Although his technical climbing days are kaput.
For games, activities and other fun stuff, or to contact R.A. Montgomery, visit us online at www.cyoa.com.
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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Start here!,
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This review is from: The Abominable Snowman/Journey Under the Sea/Space and Beyond/The Lost Jewels of Nabooti (Choose Your Own Adventure 1-4) (Paperback)
If you are new to choose your own adventure, I recommend starting withthese 4. They are the first in the new series, and are all individual books. I am pretty sure they are all reprints, and the art is definitely new, but they are a great place to start as they cover a wide range of topics. The bottom line is kids will eat these books up, not just because they are about great topics, with fun art and very well written but because they get to choose. They get to pick where they go, what they do, and all they while they are reading. A warning though, buy this box set and you might have to by the next.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Great for an 8 yr old,
By Sharon (Groton, CT) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Abominable Snowman/Journey Under the Sea/Space and Beyond/The Lost Jewels of Nabooti (Choose Your Own Adventure 1-4) (Paperback)
My grandson is 8 and really enjoys me reading these stories to him at bedtime. I can read the same story over and over and it is different each time. He just drifts off to sleep as I read to him. I also bought a set of these books for his class at school and the teachers and boys in the class love them. He is in a class of 6 boys of different grade levels, from 2nd through 5th grade. Each on of them enjoys these books.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
My sons like these books,
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This review is from: The Abominable Snowman/Journey Under the Sea/Space and Beyond/The Lost Jewels of Nabooti (Choose Your Own Adventure 1-4) (Paperback)
They have had them for a couple of weeks and they are still reading them. I read to them a couple of times and the books are enjoyable. The only problem I have with them is that some of the options you chose end the story too quickly. In some cases, you only read about 3 or 4 pages and the whole thing is over in just a couple of minutes. But if they make the right choices, the story can last somewhat longer so they get more reading time. I would like to see this type of idea in a novel that would take days to complete and would develop their decisions more. But these are entertaining books for younger readers.
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