‘Choose Your Own Adventure!’
Those of you who have been in children’s library services as long as I have will remember this series of books and how popular they were. According to an item on NPR, they are back in a new form as an iPhone application. See the article and interview of Edward Packard
here. Kinda fun to be around to see such changes and adaptations, wonder what will be next?
I am currently reading
Amazing Monty by Johanna Hurwitz. It is 106 pages and I just picked it up (it is a thin book with big type, sometimes just what I need!). Monty is a first-grader and he is an excellent reader. He is also quiet and shy but has been developing some confidence in himself. This is the third title about him, following
Mostly Monty and
Mighty Monty. Quiet books with some everyday action – a loose tooth, a substitute teacher, etc. – these titles will appeal to first graders who are also reading well, and slightly older readers who don’t mind that Monty is in first grade.
(The Nebraska Library Commission receives free copies of children’s and young adult books for review from a number of publishers. After review, the books are distributed free to Nebraska school and public libraries.)
