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How Choose Your Own Adventure Books Let Millions Of Young Readers Pick The Ending Of The Story (Cool Weird Awesome 951)
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How Choose Your Own Adventure Books Let Millions Of Young Readers Pick The Ending Of The Story (Cool Weird Awesome 951)

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16 02, 2023

How Choose Your Own Adventure Books Let Millions Of Young Readers Pick The Ending Of The Story (Cool Weird Awesome 951)

By Brady Carlson|2023-02-16T07:40:21-05:00February 16, 2023|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: books, children's books, Choose Your Own Adventure, Star Trek|

Today in 1931, the birthday of Edward Packard, who along with R.A. Montgomery founded a book series that let millions of young readers pick the ending to the story: Choose Your Own Adventure.

Does A Book With 1,250 Endings Ever Really End? (Cool Weird Awesome 262)
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Does A Book With 1,250 Endings Ever Really End? (Cool Weird Awesome 262)

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19 03, 2020

Does A Book With 1,250 Endings Ever Really End? (Cool Weird Awesome 262)

By Brady Carlson|2020-03-19T07:33:20-04:00March 19, 2020|Categories: Cool Weird Awesome, Podcasts|Tags: airplanes, children's books, Choose Your Own Adventure, coronavirus, social distancing|

I grew up reading Choose Your Own Adventure books, some of which had dozens of possible endings. But a new book from a celebrated Sri Lankan children's author had a world record 1,250 endings! Plus: a pilot in Austria does his part for social distancing with a flight path that spells out "STAY HOME."