Welcome Choose Your Own Adventure to PRH!

By Kat La Mantia | March 19 2025 | Children'sGeneralAllGiftBlog

Penguin Random House is proud to be the new distributor for the best-known gamebooks in the world, Choose Your Own Adventure! Choose Your Own Adventure books have been translated into 40 languages and have 270 million books in print worldwide. Empowering generations of children through choice, these books are widely commended for their appeal to reluctant readers.

Immersive, nostalgic, and interactive, Choose Your Own Adventure books are perfect for including in any throwback display. With their retro box set coming later in the fall, along with reprints of classic titles like The Cave of Time and The Mystery of Chimney Rock, parents and kids alike can have fun braving the mysterious worlds of the Choose Your Own Adventure series together.

Check out the linked catalog for more details about bestsellers, displays, and title groupings. Find some of our top picks below, and choose (if you dare!) your favorites to add to your own assort!

Choose Your Own Adventure Catalog
Choose Your Own Adventure – Division Page
Choose Your Own Adventure Jr. – Imprint Page

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One of the Best Witchy Gifts to Give and Get this Halloween —The Cut – New York Magazine The Choose Your Own Adventure Tarot Deck is a new take on the traditional pack. Renowned artist Brian Anderson has assembled a diverse cast to inhabit the 78 classic Major and Minor Arcana cards. What better place to seek guidance than The Choose Your Own Adventure Tarot Deck? The set includes 78 cards along with a detailed guidebook written by Choose Your Own Adventure author and tarot practitioner Rana Tahir.

$24.99 US
Jul 16, 2024
4-4/5 x 6-1/3
Game
128 Pages
Choose Your Own Adventure
Age 12 and up

9781937133061
This action-packed 4-book boxed set takes YOU on over 160 adventures!Choose Your Own Adventure books–the 4th bestselling children’s series of all time–are back and as much fun as you remember. Kids and adults agree, these are the books that get 9- to 12-year-olds reading.
$35.99 US
Sep 30, 2025
4-3/16 x 6-7/8
Boxed Set
576 Pages
Choose Your Own Adventure
Age 9-12 years

9781933390796
Finally back in print after a 25-year wait! Get lost in time in this iconic interactive book where YOU decide what happens next! Packed with 40 possible endings! Choose Your Own Adventure books–the 4th bestselling children’s series of all time–are back and as much fun as you remember. Kids and adults agree, these are the books that get 9- to 12-year-olds reading.
$8.99 US
Aug 05, 2025
4-3/16 x 6-7/8
Paperback
144 Pages
Choose Your Own Adventure
Age 9-12 years

9781937133856
Write your own interactive adventure book with the Choose Your Own Adventure: Blank Book. In the Choose Your Own Adventure: Blank Book, YOU become the author and illustrator of your own adventure! With story suggestions and helpful guidelines for writing an interactive story provided in the back, YOU can control what happens next by writing it!
$8.99 US
Jun 01, 2020
5-1/2 x 8-1/2
Paperback
128 Pages
Choose Your Own Adventure
Age 9-12 years

9781933390710
Unknowable forces are lurking in the mountains of Appalachia in this interactive book where YOU decide what happens next! Packed with 17 possible endings!Choose Your Own Adventure books–the 4th bestselling children’s series of all time–are back and as much fun as you remember. Kids and adults agree, these are the books that get 9- to 12-year-olds reading.
$9.99 US
Jul 22, 2025
5-1/2 x 8-1/4
Paperback
208 Pages
Choose Your Own Adventure
Age 9-12 years

9781954232211
Save the pegacorns in this interactive book where YOU decide what happens next! Packed with 16 possible endings! Choose Your Own Adventure books–the 4th bestselling children’s series of all time–are back and as much fun as you remember. Kids and adults agree, these are the books that get 9- to 12-year-olds reading. Rumors are swirling that a lord on an isle near Edinburgh, Scotland, is kidnapping pegacorns—winged unicorns—for his collection of magical creatures. YOU are entrusted by the king to be one of his spies and investigate these claims. Will you stay human and sneak your way around Lord Dòmhnall's castle? Or will transform into a flightless unicorn and blend in with the missing creatures? Be careful, the choices YOU make might end in glory, disaster, or certain death. Spend more time in Deborah Lerme Goodman’s magical world of unicorns with companion titles The Warlock and the Unicorn, The Magic of the Unicorn, The Rescue of the Unicorn, The Flight of the Unicorn, and the Unicorn Box.
$7.99 US
Oct 08, 2024
4-1/5 x 6-9/10
Paperback
144 Pages
Choose Your Own Adventure
Age 9-12 years

9781954232112
Choose from 9 possible endings in this interactive Choose Your Own Adventure book for 5- to 8-year-old readers!   Choose Your Own Adventure books–the 4th bestselling children’s series of all time–are now for little kids, too! Filled with colorful illustrations on almost every page, these books make reading together extra fun. But be careful!!! The choices YOU make might end up with you starring in a bigfoot documentary. YOU are finally on spring break after a rainy winter. All you wanted was to spend your school vacation in Hawaii on the beach, but your parents have other plans. You're going camping at Bigfoot Research Camp in the rainy Pacific Northwest. You are afraid you will die of boredom until a real live Bigfoot shows up. Maybe this camping trip won't turn out to be so boring after all?
$8.99 US
Mar 07, 2024
6-1/2 x 8-1/4
Paperback
80 Pages
Choose Your Own Adventure Jr.
Age 5-8 years

9781954232013
Choose from 10 possible endings in this interactive Choose Your Own Adventure book for 5- to 8-year-old readers! Choose Your Own Adventure books–the 4th bestselling children’s series of all time–are now for little kids, too! Filled with colorful illustrations on almost every page, these books make reading together extra fun. But be careful!!! The choices YOU make might end up with you and your grandfather floating through the sky.
$8.99 US
Jun 03, 2025
6-1/2 x 8-1/4
Paperback
96 Pages
Choose Your Own Adventure Jr.
Age 5-8 years

9781954232006
Sing to the tune of freedom in this interactive book where YOU decide what happens next! Packed with 16 possible endings!Choose Your Own Adventure books–the 4th bestselling children’s series of all time–now include historical fiction, in which you’re an actual historic spy! Kids and adults agree, these are the books that get 9- to 12-year-olds reading.
$7.99 US
May 06, 2025
4-3/16 x 6-7/8
Paperback
144 Pages
Choose Your Own Adventure
Age 9-12 years

9781937133368
Perform sleights of hand to secure secrets in this interactive book where YOU decide what happens next! Packed with 22 possible endings! Choose Your Own Adventure books–the 4th bestselling children’s series of all time–now include historical fiction, in which you’re an actual historic spy! Kids and adults agree, these are the books that get 9- to 12-year-olds reading. YOU are America's first famous magician, Harry Houdini, also known as "The King of Cuffs." You are known to challenge local police to defy your skills by locking you up. Reporters follow this story, and so do jealous rivals. But one follower of your magic act has a serious request: With all of your sleight of hand and intelligence, will you become a spy and collect information abroad to help the United States? Will you gain international fame? Or will you stay in the United States to perfect your tricks? Be careful, the choices YOU make might end in glory, disaster, or certain death.Recommended by teachers and librarians for educational features including: Classroom materials available upon request.Learn about Harry Houdini, renowned escape artist and friend of President Theodore Roosevelt, who some historians theorize was a spy!Delineate fact from fiction with back matter that teaches you the true story that inspired the book.
$7.99 US
May 01, 2020
4-1/5 x 6-4/5
Paperback
144 Pages
Choose Your Own Adventure
Age 9-12 years