Packard wrote the manuscript for his first book in the format, Sugarcane Island, in 19, and had an agent shop it around for years.
It would have a similar effect on his audience.īut his ultimate audience was not as immediately accessible as his biological children. But when the concept first hit Edward Packard, it was like a bolt of lightning. With the power of hindsight we can find some precedents to the Choose Your Own Adventure, forked-path fiction format. And so the father asks the children, “What do you think Pete should do?” And all Edward Packard has is Pete, washed ashore on a deserted island. In this story it is 1969 and he is the father, and the children are his children, eager for a gripping bedtime narrative. He’s told the story many times over the past forty years, and so the words come quickly and easily, spilling out over the gulf between the two of us. – Edward Packard, Return to the Cave of Time, 1985 The oracle is silent for a moment, but then answers in a firm voice, “Time is what keeps everything from happening at once.” But be careful! This bad day could get a lot worse - you might get caught in the middle of a terrible storm, sucked up into a tornado! Or you may finally make it to your uncle's pig farm - where your adventures really begin! What happens next in the story? It all depends on the choices you make.Conception/ Sugarcane Island/ The Cave of Time If you decide to try to get some sleep until the tow truck comes, turn to page 9. If you decide to get off the bus and walk, turn to page 56. It'll take hours before a tow truck arrives and gets you going again. Suddenly the bus you are on sputters to a halt, and it's still six miles away from the farm! You're hot, hungry, tired, and thirsty, and big, dark clouds are building up on the horizon.
You're headed for your worst vacation ever: while the rest of your family is vacationing in Hawaii, you have to work on your uncle Norbert's pig farm raising money to replace the roof you accidentally destroyed with your gunpowder rocket.
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