Endlessly Ever After: Endlessly Adventures

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"Grab your favorite outerwear (cozy coat or riding hood?) and your sense of adventure because Snyder and Santat have created a fun-filled fairy-tale mashup that puts kids in the driver's seat. . . . [Endlessly Ever After's] interactive nature, large trim size, and bold, full-bleed illustrations make it an excellent candidate for group sharing. There is also a fractured-fairy tale aspect to the stories featured, which ensures there are surprises around every corner. A highly entertaining read, full of possibilities."-Booklist Reviews "Multiple reader options give the woodsy road to Grandma's house any number of surprise twists and diversions. . . . Some choices are hard but not this one: Pick it up!"-Kirkus Reviews "Whether they are timid or bold, readers will delight in directing a rhyming story that magically changes every time, with choices to suit all adventurers. . . . Snyder reminds readers that 'every day...you choose,' and the choices you make matter. . . . [Endlessly Ever After] could lead to raucous story hours or interactive group reads, but what everyone needs to ask is: Do you wish you had a Choose-Your-Own-Fairy-Tale book in your hands right now? Open the book. Highly recommended."-School Library Journal "Invoking myriad fairy tale scenarios throughout a cascading choose-one's-path format, Snyder (the Charlie and Mouse series) builds a fairy story with logic gates. . . . Santat (The Aquanaut) romps lushly through this fairy tale universe, giving the folklore mainstays . . . an exaggerated, kinetic quality. . . . Readers accustomed to video game-style endings won't be bothered by Rosie's many demises; turning the page resumes the action and leads to more choices, and employing frenetic action right through to the end-er, ends."-Publishers Weekly "The choose-your-own-adventure format applied to fairytales is pure magic." - Good Housekeeping "[G]et comfortable; kids will insist on multiple readings . . . The humorously grim text is well matched with amusing illustrations that keep even the darker story elements lighthearted . . . Both text and art are endlessly clever." -The Horn Book Magazine "Illustrated by Dan Santat with his customary luminous dynamism, Endlessly Ever After [is] a picture book that will have children flapping the pages back and forth depending on where their curiosity leads them. . . . Mixing and matching elements of well-known fairy tales, Ms. Snyder and Mr. Santat have created a raucous read and a sly tribute to the joys of improvisational storytelling."-The Wall Street Journal