Our products are boxed with colorful tissue paper and gift wrapped with high quality paper, ribbon, and a gift card. The cost per gift wrapped item is $5.00. You can choose to have a product gift wrapped by clicking the box on each individual product page.

Shop By Age
We made the top 10 list of Favorite Children's Bookstores in the 2011 Totally Awesome Awards from Red Tricycle
Your Very Own Robot
Your Very Own Robot
Your Very Own Robot
by R.A. Montgomery

If you build a robot do you think you can control it? Robots can be difficult. You soon find out as your very own robot, built by you, takes charge. Uh oh! Your robot is full of tricks, but he is also fun and, not mean. But if you think you can control him, good luck!

Age: 5 Year-olds | Title: Your Very Own Robot  |  Author: R.A. Montgomery  |  Publisher: Chooseco

If you build a robot do you think you can control it? Robots can be difficult. You soon find out as your very own robot, built by you, takes charge. Uh oh! Your robot is full of tricks, but he is also fun and, not mean. But if you think you can control him, good luck!

 Let your child have a say in how the story goes with this Choose Your Own Adventure book. As the first page explains, simply "Read until you reach a choice. Turn the page of the choice you like best. If you don't like the end you reach, just start over!" Each set of pages includes a mixture of large, vibrantly colored ink and watercolor  or computer animated pictures and up to a half page of large printed words. This book makes the reader the star by using the less-common second person narrative, speaking directly to the reader with "you" statements. For example, Your Very Own Robot explains at the beginning, "You are one of the lucky ones who gets to own a robot." There is a even a blank left for what the robot's name is, so your child gets to name it.

No matter which choice you follow, each adventure within the book requires readers to make multiple choices of which path to follow, and which page to turn to and read what happens next. This provides your child with more independence than they usually have when reading a story. It also provides practice in decision-making and teaches that every decision has a consequence. The possible story endings range from you turning into a robot yourself, making the newspaper, or even having to eat pond scum! Choosing their own adventure also provides children with practice following directions; the bottom of each page directs them to either the next page, or a specific page number.  

My five year-old niece Emily loves picking her own adventure. She told me this was the first book she'd read about robots, and she loved it! I asked her what sort of robot she would want to have, and she replied, "One that would clean my room for me . . . and paint my nails."
 
--Audra

R. A. Montgomery is an avid outdoorsman. He has hiked in the Himalayas, climbed mountains in Europe, scuba-dived in Central America, and sailed in Franco-phone Africa. He has lived in France, travels frequently to Asia, and calls Vermont home. His interests include macroeconomics, geo-politics, mythology, history, mystery novels, and music. He has two grown sons, a daughter-in-law, and two granddaughters.

 

BACK TO TOP
 
Facebook Twitter Pinterest