Mountain Peak Peril: Be a hero! Create your own adventure to rescue the missing mountaineer (Geography Quest) Flexibound – August 3, 2015

I thought Mountain Peak Peril was kind of like a modern version of the Choose-Your-Own-Adventure-style books. But the goal isn’t just drama or seeing how many different ways we can meet an untimely end. Here, our goal is learning all about geography on a mission to save a missing mountaineer. There are a wide range of challenges to our geographic knowledge about mountain ranges and more. When we made an incorrect choice, we didn’t fall to our deaths, instead, each incorrect page explained our mistakes and sent us back to try again. It’s one of the most fun geography books my kids and I have read.

REVIEW: MOUNTAIN PEAK PERIL by John Townsendand David ShephardWhen my children were young [late 1970's through mid 1990's], a series of children's books was very popular. Probably they would now be categorized for middle grades or early elementary. The series was "CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE" and in each episode readers could enjoy a variety of exciting possibilities, based on their choices.In MOUNTAIN PEAK PERIL, subtitled "Create your own adventure to rescue the missing mountaineer," reader's not only glory in adventures, but test their own geography grasp, and learn while questing. What a winning idea!I reviewed a digital ARC generously provided by the author and publisher via Edelweiss, for review purpose, without remuneration.