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by Shannon Gilligan (Author), Fian Arroyo (Illustrator)
Choose from 9 possible endings in this interactive book from the bestselling Choose Your Own Adventure series, now for 5- to 8-year-old readers!
Filled with colorful illustrations, these books for little kids make reading together extra fun. But be careful!!! The choices YOU make might end up with you running from an angry ghost. YOU are her Royal Highness Princess Peregrine Yvette, or Perri for short, and it's your first summer at camp on Princess Island! You will practice your curtsy (it needs a lot of work!), search for the ghost of Lady Violet Grimm, compete in the Princess Playoffs, and make lots of new friends. Will you win points for behaving like a true princess? Should you tell your counselor about the ghost you saw? Do you help out your cousin even when she is being a big pest?Princess Island is the first book in Princess Perri's adventures, followed by more summers of fun in Princess Perri and the Second Summer and Unicorn Princess.
Author Biography
Shannon Gilligan wrote her first Choose Your Own Adventure book, The Search for Champ, in 1983. She has written over fifteen books for children, including eleven in the Choose Your Own Adventure series. Her work has been translated into twenty languages and there are over 10 million copies of her books in print. In 1990, she was in the last generation of developers who were drafted into the legendary Evangelism program at Apple Computer that reached out to non-computer people to design and develop software. Gilligan spent a decade in the '90s working on story-based computer games and her creativity tool--Comic Creator--from Hearst New Media won Best Software from People Magazine in 1995. Her contributions to video game design are featured throughout the Strong Museum of Play in Rochester, New York. Gilligan's current day job is publisher at Chooseco LLC, a purpose-built company for the relaunch of the famous children's gamebook series. She lives in Warren, Vermont, still writes when she can, and travels widely.
