Creature Feature Box

This 4-book boxed set of interactive, children's classics includes 4 gamebooks from the Choose Your Own Adventure series: The Case of the Silk King, Inca Gold, Search for the Mountain Gorillas, Search for the Black Rhino.

Widely commended for its appeal to reluctant readers, Choose Your Own Adventure is the 4th bestselling gamebook series for children of all time.

These books are different from other books you've read before. There are dangers, choices, adventures, and consequences ahead of you, and only YOU can decide what happens next. BEWARE...the wrong decision could end in disaster--even death. But don't despair, at any time YOU can go back to make another choice and change the path of your story.

This action-packed boxed set takes YOU on over one hundred adventures: Travel to Asia to investigate the disappearance of an American intelligence agent, go on a treasure hunt adventure as you search Peru for the Lost City of Gold, use your photojournalist skills to help save the gorillas, and face the dangers of the African Jungle. At the bottom of every page, YOU must make a choice:

If you go to the train station and try to take a boat to higher ground, turn to page 109. If you try to get across the flood plain on foot, turn to page 104.

This 4-book boxed set of interactive children's classics contains 4 bestselling gamebooks for readers ages 9-12 from the Choose Your Own Adventure series, together in a bright gift box:

The Case of the Silk King by Shannon Gilligan takes YOU on a thrilling adventure as you investigate the mysterious disappearance of Jim Thompson. You are a skilled young detective. An anonymous source taps you to investigate the disappearance of Jim Thompson, an American intelligence agent that went missing while visiting friends in Malaysia. When you touch down in Asia, you realize that you are not the only one on the case. Was Jim Thompson kidnapped? Will you be next? How far will you go to solve the mystery?

Inca Gold by Jim Becket takes YOU on a treasure hunt adventure as you search Peru for the Lost City of Gold. You have just discovered coordinates that might point you to the Lost City of Gold-the location where the ancient Incas hid their treasure from the Spanish Conquistadors in the 1500s. The moment you land in Peru, you realize that you are not the only one on a treasure hunt. Should you parachute into the jungle or take a bus over snaking mountain roads? Can you trust others who claim to know where the treasure lies?

Search for the Mountain Gorillas by Jim Wallace takes YOU on a safari adventure to the Impenetrable Forest of Uganda. You are a young photojournalist in Africa tracking the seriously endangered mountain gorilla species. You have heard that a few silverbacks have been spotted in the Impenetrable Forest, but the country is dangerous. The African safari holds many threats, not least of all poachers and their traps. When a young African girl goes missing, your choices get even more difficult. Will you be able to document the gorillas' plight and help save the magnificent species?

Search for the Black Rhino by Alison Gilligan takes YOU on an African Safari adventure in Kenya with your family. You have been looking forward to this spring break for months-a trip to Africa with your parents. You have been traveling to Kenya your whole life because your family owns a coffee plantation there. You know all the dangers of the African jungle: wild animals, man-eating tse-tse flies, and flash floods. But before you leave, you hear your parents talking about new dangers. Who is the mysterious "LJ" you overhear your mother's boss warning her about?

Shannon Gilligan wrote her first Choose Your Own Adventure book, The Search for Champ, in 1983. She has written over fifteen books for children, including eleven in the Choose Your Own Adventure series. Her work has been translated into twenty languages and there are over 10 million copies of her books in print. In 1990, she was in the last generation of developers who were drafted into the legendary Evangelism program at Apple Computer that reached out to non-computer people to design and develop software. Gilligan spent a decade in the '90s working on story-based computer games and her creativity tool—Comic Creator—from Hearst New Media won Best Software from People Magazine in 1995. Her contributions to video game design are featured throughout the Strong Museum of Play in Rochester, New York. Gilligan’s current day job is publisher at Chooseco LLC, a purpose-built company for the relaunch of the famous children’s gamebook series. She lives in Warren, Vermont, still writes when she can, and travels widely.