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The Haunted House (Choose Your Own Adventure - Dragonlark) (Choose Your Own Adventure: Dragonlarks)

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My kids love this book. I have a Kindergarden boy and a 2nd grade girl, and they both really like this book. They are even reading it on their own. I enjoy the book also. It isn't scary which was a huge concern of mine. I would recommend this book for ages K and up, but at a reading level of 2nd grade and up.

In a world where children have so little autonomy, my children found delight as they were given the choice to create their own adventure. To any parent who regularly encourages reading - this is a winner on so many levels, including being fun for the parent. Who wouldn't want to relive this great concept with their children. Fun! Fun! Fun!

My 4 y/o loves the Choose Your Own Adventure books and what a great concept to gear them towards a younger audience! The positives of this book are:
easy vocabulary
very child friendly and not scary at all
giving the child control of the story
can breeze through all 12 endings fairly quickly without a ton of redundancy

Negatives:
grammatical structure sometimes seems awkward
endings are weak and unexciting
no educational incorporation as in the older child series of CYOA

I really wish Montgomery would have taken the same style as in "The Abominable Snowman", "Journey Under the Sea", etc and added some educational value to the books and stronger, more incorporated endings... however, these are great for the 3 year old range and a bit beyond.

I loved CYOA books as a kid; I still have my collection and will pass them along when my kids are old enough. I don't have any of the old ones for younger readers, so I picked up this newer one. This one is just too strange and nonsensical. There's no story flow from page to page, and there's no connection between your choices and what happens. I found this to be a poor entry in the series. I always did prefer Edward Packard's books, but I still expect higher quality from R.A. I hope the other new ones are better.

I remember reading these types of books as a kid and enjoying them - my kids do too! My youngest doesn't have patience for longer books yet - but he found the novel concept of being able to change the outcome of the story fascinating and I had to read the book five times with him picking different outcomes each time.

This book is perfect for struggling readers, or readers who have a hard time finding their groove. My 2nd grader loves it. She likes the idea of choosing her own destiny and how the story could end. Its big enough to squeeze a lot of different stories, and small enough not to frustrate the young reader. It has nice large letters, and a comprehensive plot. She could not put it down. I plan to buy more of these type of books!

We got this at a book exchange and it was so much fun seeing how adventurous my children would be. At first they did not want to do anything scary, but with such fun endings they keep wanting to read more. Kids have not been able to put it down. I plan on buying more.