Even though it is just a summer job you can't help but want to quit. That's how I would feel if I was in the story.(Which I am)I love making my own desicions in books because I always have opinions when I read.I baby sit too and I hope that I will never have to face what the character faces in the story. Even if Katie is a perfect little angel when her parents are home, she turns EVIL when she is alone with you. This spine thrilling cahoose your own adventures is a wonderful book and I hope you enjoy it too.

This book uses elegant graphic comparisons to help the reader visualise the immensity of space, deep time, and the microscopic world. The Earth, for example, is imagined to be the size of a baseball with the Sun hovering about three-quarters of a mile away. The problem is that the author is so determined to use visual comparisons to help readers comprehend astronomical, and microscopic distances that he, for the most part, dispenses with actual measurements of sizes and distances. This was made doubly frustrating to this reader who was not familiar with San Francisco, baseball (two comparisons Packard uses extensively) or the imperial system. I would have liked to have had more figures to construct my own reference systems. This book is an excellent idea; if it is ever republished I would like to see more numbers, perhaps in the form of tables, as an appendix, or printed on the illustrations in tiny type so as not to scare the numeral-phobic.

The booklet "The Thousand Yard Model: or Earth as a Peppercorn" uses visual comparisons but also gives the actual distances and their scaled equivalents. Someone should do the same for deep time and microscopic distances.

This book is a blood cloated adventure. Each line of this story filled with greate adventure. This book is really an amazzing one.

Packard is almost at his best in this tale of subterrenean adventure. He utilises his imagination (always his best asset as a writer) and ties in characters from other Packard books. This device, in particular, helps the reader think there's some continuity here, some sense of belonging to the Packard family.

We come across all manner of wonderful beasts and baddies (and the odd symbolistic morality tale) down below the Bottomless Crevasse, in what is probably Packard's greatest work outside of 'Hyperspace'.

I think everyone should read this book, it deals with many marketing 307 concepts such as The Nash Equilibrium and Relative Pricing strtegies. If I had a pair of glide shoes I'd run out and buy this book today! Four Thumbs Up!' hanUSC@hotmail.com

This was not one of Packard's better books. Upon returning to the cave of time (read Choose your Own Adventure #1 for more details) you find yourself in medieval England. The king has heard of a forbidden castle that will enable anyone who conquers it to rule over all of Europe. Of course, you're a wierd person in a strange time so you're not exactly welcome here. Depending on how you go, the king may end up finding you or you won't ever see him. If you like fantasy books this one may be one to avoid. Except for the moving through time and one possible ending there's no real magic in the book.

Most of the best of the "Choose Your Own Adventure" series (in which readers are asked to make periodic choices that help determine the outcome of the story)were written by its originator, Edward Packard, and "Forbidden Castle" is definitely one of Packard's better efforts. (I think his best may have "Who Killed Harlowe Thrombey?") It begins with the protagonist - you - returning to the Cave of Time (book #1 in the series) and ending up in medieval England, where the ruthless King has offered a fortune to anyone who can solve the riddle that will lead to a Forbidden Castle of great power. The riddle is a clever one with a logical explanation, and the quest for the castle proves a dangerous and ultimately rewarding one, though not in the way one might expect. Young readers (say, 3rd-5th grade) will want to read the book many times to discover all of the endings, and enjoy the historical fiction in which sensible decisions really do take you somewhere. The book features appealing illustrations by Paul Granger.

For those of you who liked "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court," this Choose Your Own Adventure book is for you. A sequel of sorts to CYOA #1, "The Cave of Time," this story written in the series trademark second-person interactive, transports the reader back to medeval England. The reader may end up before this king, and the reader's life may be spared if s/he is able to provide a meaningful interpretation of the poem that provides the clue to discovering the Forbidden Castle.

Correct decisions may lead to discovering the castle and ultimately returning to one's own time. Wrong turns may have the reader die centuries in the past.

This was one of my favorite CYOA books, along with "Escape" and "Hyperspace."

I thought this book was really interesting because you get to explore a new planet in another galaxy.This book also had a lot of adventures that were jammed packed with exploring and meeting new things.

I'm glad that Edward Packard allowed himself to do an outer space adventure so early in this series (#7) when his colleague, R.A. Montgomery, ahd already written "Space and Beyond" as #4. Montgomery's work was pretty incoherent, but this one offers a consistent tone and unified set of plots that make it among the better of the "Choose Your Own Adventure" games. There is a pervasive weird atmosphere in this one that I rather like.

"A Day With the Dinosaurs" was a good, but not agreat dinosaur book. My favorite part was when the boy found thedinosaur egg, brought it to the fossil site, and the egg hatched. Ithought the part where the boy's friend said that the dinosaur bones were chicken bones was disappointing.

The plot of the story is simple, you find an bottle near the lake and either you or your dog gets shrunk. In a shrunken state you must try to stop your shrinkng or escape home. You'll find yourself dealing with giant animals such as hornets and frogs. If your dog is shrunk you'll have to find a way to grow him back or maybe just leave him that way. It's a really short book with great illustrations. Definately a book for younger readers.