A big dinosaur opens the discussion of numbers, with Salvatore Murdocca's whimsical drawings embellishing an increasing range of numbers and number examples. Little Numbers And Pictures That Show Just How Little They Are! will appeal to the very young, using pictures and concepts to clarify numbers ideas.

I love to bike and I love books. I bought this book and have read it 5 times and I'm on my 6th time. Every time I read it, I had somthing different happen at the end. These books you have to make lots of decisions that truly effect how it ends. I garentee this to anyone who wants adventure!!!

I know this is a great book for children as well as all of Edward Packard's choose your own adventure books I shpuld know i've read almost every one.

An exciting book in which you, yes YOU, the reader, choose what happens next in the story! Easily read and simple text matter for young adults.

I wouldn't like vampires anywhere, and I would be really scared if a vampire would be real. It isn't good to have them on a spaceship. I would hate to be taken to the vampire planet and be held prisoner. Good idea to be still in the spaceship when vampires are there.

I liked this book because it had a lot of action and the endings in it were far out! I think this author did a great job on the book. The only thing that I didn't like is that it never told how the mutant ants got to Florida but besides that, it was pretty good. My favorite part was the first time you see a spider ant. In the book I flipped the page and I watched it for a little while and all it did was eat grubs, and I thought it was going to attack me! I would recommend this book to anybody who likes action and a lot of people getting eaten. That's my review for this book.

This was the first Choose-Your-Own-Adventure book that I everread, when my older brother brought it home from elementary school.After samping a large number of the series, it remains among the best.

Even at a young age, my brother and I recognized the sheer number of kitschy lines invading this book. It had us in stitches, and I'm certain if either of us mentioned the title, we'd begin to recount our favorites. One that sticks in my head:

"'I guess we can't count on you for anything, Jonah, so we'll have to count you out...' Those are the last words you ever hear."

Ah, yes, the plot has something to do with your being a secret agent who has to save the whales. But who ever EXACTLY cared about the plots? It was all a matter of racing through the book to figure out every possible twist. Who can forget the hand-wringing tension of deciding which of four or five different spots would be the best to swim to? Or whether to secretly break into the bad guys rendez-vous house, or simply knock at the front door and bluff your way in? The KGB figures in somewhere, and all the villains are ridiculous Russian stereotypes (who look in the illustrations, if I remember correctly, oddly similar to Stalin, Kruchschev, etc.). This surely did derive from the collective Cold War imagination. I believe Trotsky is even mentioned by name, totally out-of-place, showing a complete disregard for not mixing up the historical facts in young children's brains.

Oh, the flood of nostalgia! Of course, the copy my brother and I had eventually became so worn out, it had to be disposed of, and I've never seen another edition. If I ever found it in a used bookstore, I'd pay the price. But does anyone else remember this classic piece of camp? E-mail me, we'll rap about the glory days of the strange series, and its wonderful seventh volume.

The cowboy genre seemed a natural one for the "Choose Your Own Adventure" series to venture to, and luckily it did so in the early days, when ideas were fresh and master Edward Packer was in top form. Accordingly, we get the whole western panorama here, from gambling saloons to small town newspapers to desperadoes, gold prospecting, ranching, etc. Parts of this one do seem to bog down here and there, as you keep endlessly saddling up to go to Silver Springs, and not really getting anywhere. But overall it's good fun.

I think Deadwood City was great, because you can choose your own way to go. I got a job in the ghost town. I left beforeI got killed. I also got stopped by Indians on the way, I snuck away, stopped at a water hole to drink and fill my canteen. Only a few more more miles and I was in Silver Springs. I got a job from an old friend and that was the end of my story. There are plenty of more mays to go. Another thing is they are fun because you don't know what is going to happen next.

This was the no holds barred, thrill-ride of the '84 summer. This book encapsulated an era of youthful exuberance, at the end of the Cold War. Before these present-day spoiled kids came along, kids used to pick up a book and read. Not play computer games endlessly or surf the internet. We played outside and read. And "Deadwood City" is one pretty darned good example of what the literature was back in the good ol' days of the 80's.

The style of this book makes a gem if you can find it. The regular choose your own adventure style has about 100- 180 pgs. and 10- 12 endings, some good (happily ever after) and some bad (you were eaten, thanks for playing) in regular choose your own adventure, you may only visit a page once and then make a choice out of two to three different pages. The book by Edward packard, however lets you visit a place more than once in your journey [each page represents a different place on the island of tenopia] when you reach a page it asks whether or not you have been here before. this allows you to ask people you met last time for any more information that they have learned in the time you were gone. This book has a great story-line and ends with you finding your way to the next book in the series.

Having been interested in adventure stories and the Choose your own Adventure series as a child, I picked up this book. What a great book - it combines elements of adventure, strange folk, and critical thinking/decision making. It's also virtually non-linear, making the reread value of this book high. I loved the fact that one could read this book, encountering so many different people and places, for days without getting bored or to the book's ending. I consider this the best of the Escape series, but the other three books aren't without their charm.
Whether one book, two books or the whole Escape series, this makes an excellent present for any child book-lover.

This is a great adventure book. I grew up with "Choose your own adventure" books. But the 'Escape' series was always my favorite. Instead of the usual pick from two or three questions and go to this page you actually have to travel around the Island of Tenopia with the help of a map decoder to find your way out. The coolest feature of this book is that if you happen to go to the same place twice something different happens. You might get new clues or helpful information the second time around. Basically this book feeds your imagination and it is very, very fun.

Originally titled "The Mystery of Chimney Rock" when it first hit the stores in 1982 (and WHY Bantam Books felt the need to re-title most of the first 10 books in the series in the early '90s is beyond me), this is a fun, scary (if you're 10 or under, as I was at the time) ride for younger readers. The whole sub-plot about the cat is interesting and a true twist ending. Read it and enjoy--and try to get your hands on the original if you can! ...Notorious

This book is very chilling and very spooky. Even at age 15 I enjoyed it! (Although I haven't the slightest idea why it's name was changed!)