Thank you so much to NetGalley and Quarto Publishing Group – Wide Eyed Editions for my copy of Let's Tell a Story: Fairy Tale Adventure by Lily Murray in exchange for an honest review. It publishes March 2, 2021.
What a great book! I had the help of a 6 & 8 year old in the reading of this book, but honestly, I want to read it again myself to have my own adventure! This book is everything I would have wanted when I was a child, and I think it would make a great addition to any classroom or home library!

How amazing it would be to see this book in every elementary classroom in the world! What a beautifully illustrated companion to the often difficult creative writing process. Children who struggle to think creatively, and especially when asked to put their ideas down on paper, would greatly benefit from this detailed and thorough guide to creating fairy tales. This fourth grade teacher applauds your creation and will make plans to stock my schools’ shelves with this beautiful book.

This is another delightful and charming entry in a series that offers kids the chance to create their own story and adventure. There are colorful, detailed illustrations and choices to be made as kids see each two page spread. The book can be played with again and again using different characters, scenes, objects and more.

This entry is about fairy tales. Meet up with the Three Bears, a mean Prince or many others. As in all good fairy tales the book ends with choosing the end of the tale.

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Okay, I might be prejudiced, but I absolutely love books like this, and loved the past three books like this by the author that I've read as well! I think they are so fun and love the idea of children choosing their own story to tell. I also think this can be a GREAT tool for teachers, both when reading for their pupils but also for them to use when writing their own fiction stories! This provides a great framework for writing a story! I will use books like these so much when I'm done with my master's and can go out into schools!

The book has so many different paths, so that every child may find something that interests them! And the rep is good!

This book is a really cute way for kids to come up with ideas to write their own fairy tale. I especially liked how the small pictures were labeled with the words, so kids could make those connections. This would be great for those who “never have anything to write about”. I’d also like to use it as a whole class and give everyone the same details and see how all the stories are different.

Let's Tell a Story: Fairy Tale Adventure is such a delightful, fun idea, a story-building playground of a book rendered in brightly expressive illustrations. The concept is clever and cute - readers are given a prompt ("You're about to go on an adventure. Which one of these heroes do you want to be?") and a two-page spread of options (a mermaid, a dragon, a wicked witch, a good witch, a mouse, etc.). The book encourages readers to describe their choices in detail - what kind of personality does the character have? What can you see, hear, and smell in this scene? What does this character's voice sound like? There are so many options, and so many different ways a story could go, all in a classic fairy tale theme, that this book could be read and enjoyed again and again and again without any repetition. A whimsical, adorable way of encouraging creativity and imagination with little storytellers!

Thank you to NetGalley and Quarto Publishing Group: Wide Eyed Editions for the advance review copy!

Remember the Choose Your Own Adventure books? This is an updated fairy tale version with lots of fun and wonderful illustrations and basic directions to fuel the imagination! It's kind of a never ending story because you can go back and design a whole new adventure over and over again. Loved it! Buy this for yourself!
I requested and received a free temporary ebook copy from Quarto Publishing Group – Wide Eyed Editions via NetGalley. Thank you!

I love these books and if you enjoy the You Choose series by Pippa Goodhart and Nick Sharratt, I think you will too. This book takes you through the features of fairy tales and asks you to create a story in stages, by choosing details from the different elements on each double page. There is so much choice and opportunity for discussion and the illustrations are really engaging. Definitely one to buy!

Let's Tell A Story: Fairy Tale Adventure encourages children to create their own story based on their choices from the fully illustrated book. Children choose their character, their clothing, sidekicks, where they will go, what they will do, etc. The illustrations/choices are really stunning and creative. All around, a very fun book to inspire kids to write their own fairy tale adventure.

Thank you Quarto Publishing Group – Wide Eyed Editions and NetGalley for providing this ARC.

This confused me a little, until I managed to find proof I was not seeing things. These books used to be called the 'You're the Hero' series, and the same creator had a pirate one and a jungle one, and they used to be with a different imprint in the same publishing house. The powers that be have changed the title to 'Let's Tell a Story', and moved them across the corridor – and to actually make any of this sound at all important it might be said that the new series title is a better fit. Previously they may have sounded like 'choose your own adventure' dramas, when what these books are are templates for our own imaginations, and this time we go right back to where it all began (well, perhaps not as far as when religions were being invented, but certainly to very old stories). Here, as before, we get copious double-paged spreads, and options to choose from – what do we want our hero to be doing, with whom, and what adversaries they'll face en route, and so on – and before long we've made one of many millions of hard-to-repeat stories. I don't remember the extra prompts that urge us to go so much further than the blatant box-ticking of the pages here, to fill our story out with description and dialogue, but either way, these books show how stories are constructed, and how simple choices when we have an imagination cannot help but have an impact on our own writing. And if this still fails to inspire, perhaps you've been nobbled by The Flea of Doom.