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Journey to Gameland
Journey to Gameland How to Make a Board Game from Your Favorite Children's Book Take a journey through your favorite book and transform it into a board game! Choose your characters, design your board, and create obstacles and other fun activities all according to what happens in your favorite book. Learn how to take the joy of reading to another level and discover your own creativity. Eleven-year-old Ben Buchanan, who created a board game based on the popular Harry Potter books, provides advice for all children who would like to turn their favorite book into a board game. Along with his co-authors, he offers a step-by-step process, with suggestions for parents, librarians, and teachers, on how to help children transform their favorite book into a board game. The book shows how you can have hours of fun creating the board game--and then have lots more hours of fun playing! Journey to Gameland encourages children to develop their own creativity. Journey to Gameland and My Year with Harry Potter are part of a series designed to enhance the creativity of children through engagement with books.
My Year with Harry Potter
eBook Summary: Ben Buchanan My Year with Harry Potter How I Discovered My Own Magical World Ben Buchanan of 814 Grinnell Drive was proud to say that he had a mystical life, thank you very much. "I'm normal," Ben says, "but I'm not normal." Well, let's let him tell the story: I'm normal because I am a normal kid--going to school, being happy, getting homework, having a family. I'm not normal because I'm dyslexic. I have a scar on my head. I'm not normal because mystical things happen to me. Thus begins the autobiography of an eleven-year-old boy who describes how he created a board game based on the popular Harry Potter series and entered it into his school's yearly Invention Convention, where it became an instant hit. How did he bring the characters and settings beloved by millions off the page and into his life? Letters, owls, broomsticks, forests, staircases, as well as bullies, garage sales, dyslexia, and competition all figure in this fascinating book about how one child brought the magic of Harry Potter to life. An inspiring story suitable for parents who want to encourage their children's imagination, and for all kids who want to have fun in imaginary worlds. Ben Buchanan lives with his mother, the author Carol J. Adams, his father, the Rev. Bruce Buchanan, and his brother, Douglas, outside Dallas, Texas. As he awaits the next Harry Potter book, Ben is busy completing sixth grade, and practicing piano and percussion.
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