Reddit mentions: The best children interactive adventures books

• Press Here
  This book is SO much fun. It’s an interactive one so more fun when they get a little older.
  
  
• Room on the Broom
  A fun story about sharing and the importance of friendship when you need help.
  
  
• Pig the Pug
  This one is a hilarious story about a mean dog falling out a window lol. It was recommended to me by a little girl at Barnes and Noble. She picked it up and said “Wanna read about the worst dog ever?” She wasn’t wrong haha.
  
  
• Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site
  Just a nice little rhyming bedtime story about construction equipment.
  
  
• Baby Beluga
  Yes, like the Raffi song! Singing books are sooo great to help get your little one interested in talking. This was one of my favorite songs as a kid but I only recently found out about the book. My son loves singing this with me.
  
  
• I Love You Stinkyface
  About loving your kid no matter who they are. Although I feel like it’s slightly geared toward moms of boys, it’s great for any kid or parent (they don’t actually use pronouns for the kid in the book FYI).
  
  
• Someday
  About the dreams and wishes for your baby as they grow up. Definitely on the sappy side, geared a little more toward moms of girls but I read it to my son often (and cry while I do it).
  
  
• Little Blue Truck
  Cute rhyming story about the importance of friendship and being nice to those you meet.
  
  
• Go Away Big Green Monster
  This one is a little older but idk if everyone has heard of it. It’s essentially an interactive book that teaches your kid that they have control of monsters. Each page pieces together a picture of a monster (it’s not a scary one), until you tell the monster to go away, and then each page takes a piece of the monster away.
  
  
• Anything written by Mo Willems!!
  The Pigeon books, Elephant and Piggie books, and Knuffle Bunny are all great. Funny for adults and engaging for kids.
  
  (Will edit and add more later as I think of them)

1. Everywhere Babies is excellent for birth through 18 or 24 months. It's a celebration of babies being loved (in rhyme), and so is loved by parents, and also toddlers.
   
   
2. Big Red Barn is a nice bedtime story as the animals go to sleep.
   
   
3. Then graduate to Going to Sleep on the Farm which has the same idea, but in much richer visual detail.
   
   
4. How Will We Get to the Beach is also nice. A mother is heading to the beach with her baby and several objects (umbrella, beach ball, etc.). On each page, Mom discovers her (ever-changing) mode of transportation won't do because it would mean leaving one of her things behind. For babies, it's a story. For toddlers, it's a memory game as you try to remember what's missing when Mom tries to get on the kayak, skateboard, hot air balloon, etc. There's also a tiny ladybug hidden on each page that older toddlers like to find.
   
   
5. Goodnight Gorilla is the first book that caused my daughter to laugh, due to the many voices given to the animals saying goodnight and the surprised sound I voice for the wife who realizes zoo animals are in her bedroom.
   
   
6. Morris the Moose has awesome humor for an older age child (3? 4? 5?) that is still quite good for adults, too.

My oldest is three years old, and I've found that books are a great gateway to the horror media we all know and love. It started the October after he turned one, when we found "Slide and Find Spooky" at a library book sale. It was a big hit and we've since amassed a pretty good collection of similarly themed board books

Where is Baby's Pumpkin?

Eek! Halloween!

Spooky Pookie

Little Boo

Llama Llama Trick or Treat

Happy Halloween, Curious George

and picture books

Go Away, Big Green Monster!

Happy Halloween, Little Critter!

Clifford's Halloween

Berenstain Bears Trick or Treat

Berenstain Bears Go on a Ghost Walk

Bonaparte Falls Apart

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This past fall we started watching some horror-themed television and movies. Good intros were

Curious George: A Halloween Boo Fest

Hotel Transylvania

Coco

Scared Shrekless

The Nightmare Before Christmas

and especially the late sixties and late seventies iterations of Scooby-Doo. More recently we've gotten into Mystery Incorporated! (which is a treasure trove of horror references for grown-up fans, from Hellraiser's Lament Configuration and Eaten Alive's Starlight Hotel to Vincent Price and Jason Voorhees). Other kid-friendly movies that went over well have included

Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein

Bride of Frankenstein

The Monster Squad

Beetlejuice

and, oddly enough, Starman

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Obviously, every kid is gonna have their own preferences and move at their own speed. I've been lucky that mine gets a real kick out of "spooky" things, likes to pretend we're ghosts or monsters as we play chase, etc. One benefit of enjoying this stuff together is that we can talk about how monsters are for fun and not real, and we've watched makeup tutorials on YouTube to see how artists help actors pretend to be monsters. We have yet to go through waking up from a nightmare about any of this, and I think the conversations we've had about the imaginary nature of these things have really helped with that.

Sorry, I forgot to come back here and check for later questions!

I don't know much about adult histories of dragons, but The Book of Dragons is pretty good for kid dragon short stories, and A Field Guide to... and A World Guide to Gnomes, Fairies, Elves, and Other Little People is pretty cute for the others. Dragonology is another, but it's more adorable than useful.

"I'm ready to go—that slide is mine!"

Yo Gabba Gabba book for my almost-2-year-old. My favorite memory with him is the first time he ever laughed. I had PPD pretty bad and when he laughed, it's like the sky cleared up. Also knowing it was me that made him laugh was fantastic.

PS: Ah-dor-ah-bull. ;)

These all look fantastic! I would add
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316236535/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1495720962&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=big+green+monster&dpPl=1&dpID=51XMV5wCq3L&ref=plSrch

And

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0920303110/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1495721023&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=mortimer+robert+munsch

You might have Munsch in your classics , but he is one of my favorites. My kids enjoyed No David by David Shannon. Pigeon books were also a favorite here.

Thanks for the list! Lots to research!

When my child laughs. Especially if it's something I said or did with the intent of making them giggle. "Mom, you're funny" is amazing.

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If you don't have this then you're missing out. I love acting out this book, and it's my daughter's favorite to read.

Without knowing for sure what you mean by "small" (4? 7?), here are my go to suggestions for modern kids' comics:

• The Babymouse series by Jennifer and Matthew Holm
  
• The Magic Trixie series by Jill Thompson
  
• The two Miss Annie books by Frank Le Gall and Flore Balthazar
  
• Zita the Spacegirl by Ben Hatke
  
• Meanwhile... by Jason Shiga. It may seem a little advanced, but my friend's twin girls loved it when they were about 6.
  
  Any more details you can furnish about the girl's entertainment habits and interests would help to get more specific.

I have lots of sports memories! But since you're going to a hockey game It made me think of the first time I went to a Hockey game. I went to go visit my friend in Michigan. I went to see him because he was getting married. He was waiting for me when I got off of the plane with a Red Wings sweater and two hockey tickets for that night! I remember how it was scary walking through everything to get to the arena because it was dark and I'd never been in such a big city. Plus there were all sorts of pan handlers etc. But we had amazing tickets and it was sooo much fun!

I'd love this for my daughter if I win!

Thanks for the contest!

Do you remember the cost of the book? What color the cover was? If it was adult or YA lit?

Anyway some other possibilities

Flipped
This one has a lot about a tree

The Curious Incident of The Dog In The Night Time
Unlikely but sounds interesting

Cathy's Book

More of a mystery but revolves around a female POV.

The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet is another contender but doesn't fit your timeframe, its more recent.

Their isn't all that much experimental YA fiction out there so a good librarian good probably help you out.

If you liked "Choose Your Own Adventure," please, for the love of all that's awesome, check out Meanwhile by Jason Shiga. It's a "choose your own" comic story that's wicked funny.

You know what you need? You need a book. A book about DRAGONS. Why? BECAUSE MOTHER FREAKIN' DRAGONS, THAT'S WHY. DRAGONS ARE AWESOME AND SO ARE YOU.

SO BUY YOURSELF THIS FREAKIN' AWESOME BOOK, YO

Big Green Monster is one of my favorites!! I love it tons.

Also,

• But No Elephants
  
• Sweet Dreams, Clown Arounds!
  
• Little Mouse's Big Valentine
  
• Buggly Bear's Hiccup Cure
  
• No Carrots for Harry
  
• Pigs in the House
  
• Pickle Things
  
• The Stinky Cheese Man
  
  Get those kids some books! :)

Oh man! I love Shiga's comics, but hadn't visited his site this year. I highly recommend Meanwhile (I had to buy a physical copy) and Fleep is also very good.

This Jimmy is long on rationality and short on ethics. Looking forward to seeing where this goes.

Depends on budget. The starter set is <$20 on Amazon. The Player's Handbook is around $30 (or $50 at a bookstore/gaming shop). A cool set of dice in his favorite color is usually<$10. Amazon has a kind of interactive book called Dungeonology for $15. (List price is $30. We're getting a couple as gifts for friends.)



my go-to for people curious or mildly interested.

Many of the 5e modules have sections about running them in other D&D settings, so they are easily adaptable.

The Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide is the campaign setting book for the FR, thus far. Tho I also recommend Dungeonology by Matt Forbeck. It's a pithy little FR campaign primer and has THE best Sword Coast map produced in 5e, to date.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0786965800/ref=pd_aw_fbt_14_img_3/167-2967996-5756223?ie=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=2HSMNV0WGXZWD01G04RC

https://www.amazon.com/Dungeonology-Ologies-Matt-Forbeck/dp/0763693537


My favorite out-of-a-can campaign setting is actually Mystara. After I finish my next couple FR games, I'm gonna run a 5e Mystara campaign.

You can use any campaign setting book from any edition in 5e. You're just using the flavor text to tease out the world. Don't worry about the edition mechanics.

It's hard to find because he makes them by hand, but also check out "Meanwhile", published by Amulet.

http://www.amazon.com/Meanwhile-Pick-Path-Story-Possibilities/dp/0810984237/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1265263413&sr=8-1

It's a choose-your-own-adventure comic that's brilliant - you follow different paths throughout the comic, and it does some stuff with the medium I've never seen before. Super impressive.

Speaking as a mom :) , I suggest an interactive toy like this

and a book with photographs (much better than drawings) like this

The concept is certainly interesting, especially the gamification. That aspect might be enough to set it apart from Jason Shiga's Meanwhile: Pick Any Path. 3,856 Story Possibilities. which, for my money, is the gold standard for this type of book.

I also notice that these are translations from the French, which is a good sign. Has anyone read the originals? Do you have any insight into how well they work in practice?

WOOD

Cool notebook

Teachers Carry All

Love Math

Chinese jumprope at recess

School Sloth Would Be the Best Mascot

Favorite Lunch Snack

Favorite Picture Book Peanuts Rock!

Cute Cool Backpack

Waiting for Dinner

Bonus 1


In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.

edit: forgot number 3

I got this book for my son at Goodwill when he was less than a year and he still loves it at nearly 3. Makes me read it to him over and over again. The cars are raised and sort of 3d and one disappears on each page.

The story's not great, the protagonist basically manages to win by not crashing in a stupid way, but my son loves the interactive part.

I actually found out what this is! It's "Cathy's Book"

https://www.amazon.com/Cathys-Book-Found-Call-266-8233/dp/0762433469

Thank you guys for the help though! :)

We’ll ask around to friends and family but that’s a hard to find item, out of print, and publisher doesn’t have any either...

If anyone gets back to us I’ll let you know.

In the mean time, i know this wouldn’t be cheap, but sounds like time is short and precious... it looks like one seller on Amazon does have it and will ship same day...

A Dark Dark Wood - David Carter - Amazon

If you ordered tonight or tmw should arrive wherever by Tuesday...

I lost my mother a couple years ago and my cousin just lost his father so I totally understand and respect what you are trying to do.

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This one is relatively recent and pretty awesome: Meanwhile

Personally, I'm a big fan of the Marsupial Dragon, but it's hard to beat the classic European Dragon. The Frost Dragon is pretty cool too though.

Reference for the confused

http://www.amazon.com/Dragonology-Complete-Book-Dragons-Ologies/dp/0763623296

I have it in German, really amazing book, thank you for reminding me of it even if it isn't what you searched for! :D

Not sure if videos are allowed , but this one is decent and the book is very well made i think. If someone is interested here is amazon link

Yeah, definitely sounds like Meanwhile by Jason Shiga https://www.amazon.com/Meanwhile-Path-Possibilities-Graphic-Novels/dp/0810984237

There's a great graphic novel called "Meanwhile" that's a CYOA book. Lots of little details, oodles of possibilities.

Actually, I'm looking around forums and stuff and it looks like you may be in luck. I don't know if this is what you're looking for, but check it out.

I'm continuing my search.

Edit: maybe this?

There's this one, though it looks like it is for very young children.

I illustrated this book 8 years back - where each page is a new floor in a building and you have to look carefully to solve the 'whodunnit' mystery. BUT!! The real mystery was solved with a year of the book's release - we actually buried 12 diamond/silver/gold/emerald jeweled numbers (custom made4 for us, 'from the clock') in real life around the US - and each page held a picture-clue as to where to look in the real world. Those who found them first got to keep them! I think it's out of print but Amazon still sells them.

My mom did reading intervention when I was little, so books were pretty much where it was at. Sam' Sandwich and the sequels, Strega Nona, Flat Stanley (who has apparently turned into a Thing in the last twenty years or so, all of Babar, Caps for Sale, Tikki Tikki Tembo, The Boy Who Drew Cats... I could go on and on and on. Story time was a very big deal around these parts and you can't pick just one. Much like how being read just one story was never acceptable.

It's not D&D, but maybe a CYOA or Fighting Fantasy book?

Worst Case Scenario: Mars is fantastic... it has a "mission info" section in the back you can use to inform your choices, a bio of each character up front, and comic style panels in some places. I really enjoyed it at least. :-p

There is a Choose Your Own Adventure book/comic called Meanwhile that blew my mind as a kid with a similar concept. If you chose to eat chocolate ice cream (the first choice), eventually you met a professor who built a machine to guarantee a coin flip will come up heads. He rigged a machine to destroy the universe if the coin is tails, so existing after pushing the button means your coin must necessarily have landed on heads. The book gets even trippier after that, but that’s what stuck with me the longest. It’s a pretty solid read in the YA section, and a basic but solid introduction to quantum mechanics.

I got my nephew (9 years old I think?) Dungeonology for Christmas.

Apparently he loves it.

http://www.amazon.com/Meanwhile-Pick-Path-Story-Possibilities/dp/0810984237

Really a fun book for any age.

http://www.amazon.com/Meanwhile-Path-Possibilities-Graphic-Novels/dp/0810984237

this is a funny choose-your-own-adventure comic. sometimes the reader can end up "losing" and the reader's ability to naturally restart their adventure in the comic is justified as destroying parallel universes, and switching to extant universes.

i think a version of it can be found online.

I am almost certain you are talking about meanwhile. the vanilla or chocolate thing confirmed it

edit: oof, some dude got to you before i did.

My google query into the matter resulted in this.

Dammit, now some dude with a camera crew is telling me to go have a seat over there.

Was it A Practical Guide to Dragons or Dragonology?

I had one in the series on mythology, egypt, dragons, and pirates. It camp from candlewick press if it is of the same series. I have seen that picture before and think it is in

https://www.amazon.com/Dragonology-Complete-Book-Dragons-Ologies/dp/0763623296/ref=pd_sim_14_2?ie=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=MGQMGA6H3Z2T43PETTG0

It has a chapter on different types of dragons and some that are in water.

Is it this http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316236535?pc_redir=1413619540&robot_redir=1

Dragonology: The Complete Book of Dragons?

Dragonology?

https://www.amazon.com/Dragonology-Complete-Book-Dragons-Ologies/dp/0763623296/ref=sr_1_1?crid=KRSH15SDKJU4&keywords=dragonology&qid=1554407906&s=gateway&sprefix=dragonolo%2Caps%2C190&sr=8-1

Dragonology!

Dragonology: The Complete Book of Dragons (Ologies) https://www.amazon.com/dp/0763623296/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_g4cPCbHM6WVH4

Looks familiar!

http://www.amazon.com/Dragonology-Complete-Book-Dragons-Ologies/dp/0763623296

I think it was "Meanwhile"

https://www.amazon.com/Meanwhile-Path-Possibilities-Graphic-Novels/dp/0810984237

Dragonology?

Go Away, Big Green Monster is another one similar to this!

Is this it? Dragonology: The Complete Book of Dragons by Ernest Drake?

Is this it?

https://www.amazon.com/Meanwhile-Path-Possibilities-Graphic-Novels/dp/0810984237

This?

https://www.amazon.com/Meanwhile-Path-Possibilities-Graphic-Novels/dp/0810984237 ?

If it's this one, that would be Dragonology.

Go Away, Big Green Monster?

Dragonology?

Meanwhile?
https://www.amazon.com/Meanwhile-Path-Possibilities-Graphic-Novels/dp/0810984237

Dragonology?

"Meanwhile"

https://www.amazon.com/Meanwhile-Path-Possibilities-Graphic-Novels/dp/0810984237

Wyverns are wyverns and dragons are dragons go read a book smh. https://www.amazon.com/Dragonology-Complete-Book-Dragons-Ologies/dp/0763623296

Many-worlds (the idea that the Universe splits every time a wavefunction collapses) is not fully falsifiable: there is no experiment you can do to show that it doesn't happen, since the outcome you experience is that your experiment worked in a conventional, allowed way. Many-worlds is confirmable in the sense that you can combine that idea with solipsism to do some truly amazing things. In particular, in a true many-worlds universe, it is impossible for you to commit suicide. All outcomes that involve both (A) you trying to commit suicide and (B) you experiencing that fact are the outcomes in which you survive. So you can do silly things like reverse entropy by massively trimming the branching tree of Universes. There are a nifty series of gedankenexperiments in the delightful non-linear graphic novella Meanwhile. But if you try the experiment and many-worlds is wrong, you end up really dying in the only real world there is -- so it's not possible to falsify the many-worlds interpretation that way. You just end up dead and not able to falsify anything.


But there is more reason to think that many-worlds is a fundamentally flawed concept. The idea of "quantum collapse" itself is a shorthand for something more nuanced: quantum decoherence. In more modern interpretations, collapse (the fundamental branchpoint of the many-worlds interpretation) is seen instead as a combination of "quantum decoherence" and "quantum ignorance" (both of which involve the wave function losing predictive power due to unknown/uncontrolled interaction with the rest of the Universe). The latter is particularly useful because it sidesteps paradoxes like the Einstein-Rosen-Podolsky paradox: in that (quantum Bayesian) view, quantum "collapse" can happen at infinite speed, because it's not actually happening in the Universe -- it's happening in the mind of the physicist doing the experiment. In those more modern understandings, there's no need for collapse to be elevated to a fundamental event as it is in many-worlds or in the Copenhagen interpretation. It is a consequence of ordinary evolution of the wavefunction.