This is a great style of book. Not only do you get to read with your child, but you also get to let them choose the adventure. This makes reading even more fun for them, as well as helping them with their listening skills, words and ability to connect images with letters. The illustrations are colourful and great.

I absolutely wish these books existed when I was a young, aspiring writer. Maybe I would have stuck to it!! Great illustrations and easy to follow instructions on how to create your own pirate story.

I love build-your-own-story books and this one did not disappoint! The colors are vibrant and the illustrations are wonderful. You get an explanation of how you're supposed to read the book and create your own story. I read it in ebook form, but it would be wonderful as a physical book! I really hope that when this is published, it comes with all the little piece options that you can pick out and put together as you go along choosing things, so that the reader can play along with their story pieces after the book is over.

You’re the Hero Pirate Adventure was a hoot! My 5 yr old, 9 yr old, and I went through the story and we wrote it out on a piece of paper so they could both read each of their stories at the end. Oh it was so much fun!

I was provided with an electronic ARC through NetGalley and the publisher in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own.

I received an advanced reader copy of this book to read in exchange for an honest review via netgalley and the publishers.

This is a great book for children who love adventure stories. This book is a pirate adventure which you choose how it will go and what you will be, use, have etc throughout the whole book. This is an amazing book for children to ignite their imaginations!

Are you ready to go on a Pirate Adventure? You can choose the hero you want to be, where you want to go and go back and change the story again. With each page, your child is engaged in each scenario. You also have a friend hiding in each page that you can help spot. It can be funny, a little scary but always with a good ending. Because you are the hero of the story. I had to chuckle because one of the things you got to choose was a life time of toilet paper. What kiddo would not what that along with their parents. Have Fun and have an adventure with the Pirates of the sea!

A Special Thank you to Quarto Publishing and Netgalley for the ARC and the opportunity to post an honest review.

This is absolutely perfect for those children who love to have the same book every night but whose parents cannot take one more night reading the same words. Each night you and your child can create a new story and have fun picking different options and combinations!

This book was absolutely amazing and my son and I enjoyed reading it together! The illustrations are vivid, but what makes this book great is that you get to choose your adventure. This book is on the list to buy as soon as it's released!

I really enjoy the "choose your own stories" by Lily Murray. It helps kids use critical thinking skills, decision making skills, and enhances creativity and imagination. It is a great tool to have in the classroom to get kids on their feet as well as using their minds. We love to use it during story time to get up, dress up, and act out the story! I really enjoy Lily Murray's books.

I clicked on this not knowing anything about it, and assuming it was some kind of junior choose-your-own-adventure book, perhaps a comic book one. But no. The whole shtick of the book – and others in the series – is that you hit the regular beats in a pirate story, such as deciding what kind of pirate you'll be (or even if you'll be a goat), where you'll go and why and how, and every double-page spread offers you a possible selection. I'm sure a good home tutor could come up with a similar thing to do as a parlour game, where imaginative children could answer the prompts and pick enough things to stumble on a reasonable narrative, but this is still worth a good look. The fact there are so many choices per spread – over a dozen things to select from at every turn – means that while this might be a modern narrative form of those things where you flip over the top third of a person, the middle third and the legs to present a wacky body shape and costume out of numerable possibilities, there is still a great scope for coming up with something new countless times. Also, it will generate an interest in published pirate stories, which the child will like as not find fun – but they will perhaps enjoy more the fact they'll have 'written' their own first.

The book was cute, but I was disappointed. I thought there would be an actual story. This was just pages of choices.

If you're looking for a unique book with a premise about making up your own story, then this is the best book for you!

In times like this (you know, a pandemic where half of us are stuck inside or with our kids), it's great to find a book that will keep you and your little one busy. This book is the perfect fix to change up your day! It's creative, imaginative, and can get the kids involved in the story telling!

Lily Murray has previously made a book like this, but this time it's all about pirates! Essentially, you are given story queues and can then fill in the blanks of the story. But don't worry, the blanks aren't really blanks - the story provides with little pictures and ideas for the story! For example, you start out picking which person or creature you want to be the hero! Want to be a goat instead of a pirate? YOU GOT IT! And then you get them dressed, pick an adventure and continue adding to your story with each page that passes.

I seriously LOVE this book. I can't say how much I appreciate an imaginative book like this. I would have ate it up as a child, but I always loved being creative. Something like this is greatly needed in times like this, so hurray for Lily Murray! Genius!

Five out of five stars.

Thank you to NetGalley and Quarto Publishing Group for giving me access to a copy of this absolutely wonderful book! More like this, please!

Brilliant book, I read with my nephew and he loved it from start to finish and now wants me to read it with him again

Pirate Adventure is a very imaginative introduction to choose-your-own-adventure type stories for early readers. There are a variety of picture options at every decision, which means there are hundreds of stories available to choose from. While I do think the illustrations, idea, and options are very cute, the options available often diminished my enjoyment a bit. Even as a child, I would have been asking why I, as a girl, only had a princess, queen, chimney sweep, or skeleton woman to pick from if I wanted a girl character. Why couldn't I have been the swashbuckler, Captain, or First Mate? Yes, as an adult, I know I can pick any character (which is half the fun) but it does make me question why all the exciting characters are male. Having an Islamic woman as a doctor is fantastic, but an overall lack of diversity (human wise) in the story makes her stand out as a "see, I have diversity in my story" character. As a child who doesn't know much of the world, I would have liked the book and probably picked to be the goat or monkey, but as an adult, I can't overlook the stereotypical selections available to the reader.

Review to come to my blog/goodreads tomorrow.

I received this book from Netgalley in exchange of an honest review.

I just LOVE books that make you pick your own adventure, I have read many of them in various forms. Some hold a whole story and let you pick a branch to go to, others have tabs and let you pick a tab from a selection of options given by characters/story, and then there are books like this one which give you a two page picture and let you pick a person/an object/etc.. I am a big fan of all of these, but I have to say this one is the most fun. You can make so many more stories.

This one is about PIRATES! TREASURE! Sorry, you have to put both those words in bold capslock, because they are amazing. For my first story I went with the goat who is wearing a flower garland and is visiting a forgotten city and is taking a discoball, a hula-hoop, and a bottle of milkshake with her. Along on the journey she takes on a crew of two dancing rats, a bodyguard, and a ghost. Of course she has to travel in style so she decides to go in a bathtub and we travelled past an island made of chocolate (and ate a lot of chocolate, yum)). She is definitely not looking forward to our rat friends eating all the food (they are quite hungry). When she gets to the destination of the forgotten city there are many people to greet her (she is a famous goat!), like an iguana, her cousin the llama, and some cute pirate babies. But what is this? An enemy appeared. Arrr, it is the fearsome dino pirates duo that has been haunting the seas, they are going to spring a shark with legs on me (oh no). BUT, no worries some friendly dolphins came to the rescue. Yay! As a reward for our journey we get all the fries we can eat (which goes well with the milkshake we took with us). YUM! At the end of the day the goat decides to enter for the world record for longest beard and guess what, she wins!

As you can see, I had so so much fun doing this one and I could imagine tons of more adventures with the goat, but also with others that we can select at the beginning. You can make the story scary or funny or silly or dead-serious. Whatever you want, you can do it with this book. I think I will go back and make more stories, this is a book that will keep someone busy for some time, and kids will just LOVE it. I am sure of it. So many options, fun and bright illustrations. You can be anything and go everywhere.

I would highly recommend this one and I will be off for my next adventure, this time I am going to the jungle. Look forward to it!

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You're the Hero Pirate Adventure Create Your Own Pirate Story
Do you love pirates? Do you have a special someone at your house who loves pirates and adventure? Do you love to tell stories but sometimes run out of ideas? Are you teaching a writing class and looking for ways to ignite the imaginations of your students while given them a structure to work with? If your answer is yes to any of these questions than this book is just what you need. It is is DIY (do it yourself) book of illustrated ideas for every facet of a pirate's adventure. You start by choosing the type of hero you would like - a knight, a pirate Queen, the Captain, a skeleton pirate. What will you wear - pirate boots or flip flops, an eye patch or pink sunglasses, a beard, a mustache, gold necklaces or a bowtie.? Who will be on your crew - a body guard who looks like a former football player, a doctor, a robot pirate or no one at all? Will you travel on a submarine, in a bathtub,a tanker or a raft? What route will you take? What will it be like? What are you most afraid of ? What enemy do you face? Do you escape the enemy and if so how?
What is your reward when you get to your destination? Come to think of it - what IS your destination? These are just a few of the many ideas for you to build your story with. When you are done you can create a totally different story the next day.
I highly recommend this book for all pirate fans that like to create and tell stories.

I received a copy of this book from net galley in exchange for an honest review. I have small children and I saw this book and immediately thought of them and how they love telling stories about pirates and adventure. This is a wonderful book that sparks imagination and creative story telling just based off of a few fun choices you/they can make. Extremely fun and exciting to watch little imaginations grow. We've been through it once already before submitting the review I see a fun filled day in our future with this book. Would highly recommend to anyone with children who would love to hear story after story that their child makes up based on the prompts of this wonderful book.

This was such a fun book to read with my kids. They both loved picking out their characters, outfits, and especially their crew. They had a lot of fun with picking out their crew. I'm sure the kids and I will be reading this book many more times.

A perfect book to use in school with the lower levels, or lower-to middle-level English pupils! The story is fun and has a lot of different exciting and funny options for the reader to choose from, and the diversity in the characters you can be and meet along the way is perfect! I especially had a laugh with the possible appearance of the dinosaurs in the story! This book could be a great tool for pupils to write their own stories as well!

This is an absolutely adorable book that is geared toward children in grades K to 2.  It is charmingly and amusingly illustrated throughout.


This is a book that encourages children to make choices.  For example, children are invited to embark on their adventure...which hero would they like to be?  It could be a toddler, a skeleton, a chimney sweep, a goat or there are many others to choose from.  Readers then select their clothing, where they will go, what three items they will most need and so the book continues on with choices until the very end. 


This title is an update of the choose your own adventure books.  It will appeal to little readers and would be a wonderful book to sit down and enjoy with a child that you know.


Especially now when we are stuck at home, give a child you know the gift of adventure.  I think that you will both enjoy it.


Many thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for this title.  All opinions are my own.]