![]() ![]() Seeing you, he sings a few more notes, then holds up a hand. A thin, ghostlike figure with a long white beard is singing. It was written by Edward Packard, published by Bantam Books, and released in. Directors Mark Dennis Ben Foster Writer Mark Dennis Stars Reiley McClendon Cassidy Gifford Brianne Howey See production, box office & company info Watch on Prime Video rent/buy from 2. Some of his students come looking for him and get trapped in the cave as well. You crawl on, and a minute later reach a dimly lit chamber. The Cave of Time was the first Choose Your Own Adventure book ever published. A professor enters a cave and goes missing. Stopping to rest, you hear a voice singing ahead of you, an eerie tune with only three or four notes. The only thing to do is to keep going, so that’s what you do, painfully crawling around a bend to the right, then one to the left, in total darkness. ![]() There’s not enough room to turn around, and you’re not sure you can back out! You feel a tightening of muscles in your throat-the beginning of panic. At one time a small church was built on top of the cave this was converted to a mosque with the mihrab still being visible above the entrance. After a half hour of crawling, your hands and knees are sore. The tunnel seems endless and keeps curving to one side, as if it might be going around in a circle. You crawl in on your hands and knees, and then along a tunnel that you hope leads to the main chamber of the cave. It’s not until the sun is about to go down that you find one, a hole barely big enough to squeeze through, hidden by clumps of sage. You search the floor of the canyon, looking for another way in. About midafternoon you reach the familiar grove of pine trees near the cave’s entrance, only to find that landslides covered it over. As an oddity though, it’s kind of neat the rapid speed you can get through this and crazy number of permutations you can take to an eventual ending.Your heart races as you make your way through Snake Canyon, looking for the entrance to the Cave of Time. If there’s a sweet spot for these books, where you get enough choices to keep it fun but enough story to keep you interested, this book is far on the extreme away from that. They also weren’t aware of what the Great Wall of China was, so maybe we’re failing as parents to our 5 and 3 year old. That was a shock to their little ears first that they had a bad ending and second that you could be forced into a life of wall building. My kids got to read about a UFO and ended up living a life of forced servitude building the Great Wall of China. The Cave of Time by Edward Packard, the first book in the series. Throughout the book if you go to the left you go back in time and go to the right you go forward. Choose Your Own Adventure is a series of childrens gamebooks where each story is written. My kids decided to stay in the cave and immediately began time traveling. Not surprisingly for a book The Cave of Time staying in the cave results in some time travel shenanigans. Basically, you’re at a cave, and the question is do you stay in the cave until it gets bright out or try to find your way home in the dark. Unlike later choose your own adventure books, this one throws you right in (so much so that my wife and I flipped back to page one multiple times to make sure we didn’t miss anything). ![]() We just read it yesterday, in one sitting, and there is a choice on every page. Most of these books I can recite the exact choices my kids picked. ![]()
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