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Choose Your Own Adventure sold more than 250 million copies between 1979 and 1998. The series was published by Bantam Books and became one of the most popular children's book series of the 1980s and 1990s.
Edward Packard created the concept for Choose Your Own Adventure, drawing on bedtime stories he told his daughters. The series was originally published by Vermont Crossroads Press, co-owned by R. A. Montgomery, before moving to Bantam Books.
The first book, Packard's Sugarcane Island, was published in 1976 by Vermont Crossroads Press under the name "Adventures of You." Bantam Books began printing the series under the Choose Your Own Adventure name in 1979.
Bantam Books published 184 books in the Choose Your Own Adventure series between 1979 and 1998. The series has also been translated into 40 languages.
Yes. In January 2019, Chooseco initiated a trademark infringement challenge against Netflix over the interactive film Black Mirror: Bandersnatch. Netflix settled the suit in November 2020.
Bantam discontinued the series in 1999, and the Choose Your Own Adventure trademark later lapsed. Chooseco relaunched the series in 2003 and plans to reissue titles by Packard beginning in August 2025.