The original adventure
Adventure Maker: Write Your Story
A guided story-making journey where young writers invent the characters, choose the direction, and build an adventure that belongs entirely to them.
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Every blank page is a doorway.
Guided write-in adventures that help kids invent characters, choose twists, sketch scenes, and finish a story they are proud to call their own.
the story!
01 Follow a spark
02 Make bold choices
03 Write and draw
04 Finish a story
Pick a world. Take the lead.
Four ways to become the author.
Each book offers a different creative setting, but the most important ingredient is always the same: the young writer holding the pencil.
A vacation for the imagination
Adventure Maker: Summer Quest
Sunny settings, daring quests, and write-and-draw prompts turn summer downtime into a creative expedition.
Buy on AmazonA spooky creative challenge
Write Your Own Ghost Story
A guided writing book that helps kids shape eerie settings, mysterious characters, and a ghost story with their own ending.
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A holiday story workshop
Write Your Own Elf Story
Twenty festive writing and drawing adventures filled with North Pole problems, elf-sized surprises, and room to make the season their own.
Buy on AmazonCreative confidence starts here
For kids with big ideas—and no idea where to begin.
Adventure Maker gives imagination just enough structure to get moving. Instead of facing an empty page, young writers begin with inviting choices, playful prompts, and a path they can make their own.
How an adventure gets made
A little guidance. A lot of imagination.
Step one
Meet the prompt
A playful question, setting, or problem opens the door without deciding the whole story.
Step two
Choose the direction
The young author makes the important calls: who appears, what changes, and where the adventure goes.
Step three
Write, draw, and build
Short, approachable activities turn one idea into characters, scenes, twists, and discoveries.
Step four
Own the finished story
The result is more than a completed activity—it is a book filled with choices only that child could make.
story time
For parents, teachers & gift-givers
Creative writing without the blank-page panic.
These books make a strong fit for kids who love making things, kids who say they “don’t know what to write,” and kids who need a more playful way into language arts.
- Bite-sized prompts create quick, confidence-building wins
- Writing and drawing welcome different kinds of creators
- Open-ended choices keep every finished book personal
- Useful for home, classrooms, homeschool, travel, and school breaks
The next great story needs an author
Hand them the pencil.
Start with a mysterious castle, a summer quest, a friendly ghost, or a North Pole surprise—and let their imagination do the rest.
Choose a book