How Choose Your Own Adventure Books Let Millions Of Young Readers Pick The Ending Of The Story

Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson
16/02/2023 3 min Temporada 5 Episodio 951

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Episode Synopsis

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. Plus: today in 1967, the first appearance of the Star Trek villain Khan Noonien Singh, who Gene Roddenberry named as a shout-out to an old war buddy. 
The Enduring Allure of Choose Your Own Adventure Books (The New Yorker)
The Name's Familiar Mr. Leotard, Barbie, and Chef Boyardee (via Google Books)
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