Leaping Lizards: Nintendo Adventure Book #2

by Clyde Bosco

Book Overview

Luigi must save the King from the devious Morton Koopa - and only the reader can make the choices that allow him to beat Morton and the rest of the Koopa Kids. There are codes to crack, puzzles to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671741136
• ISBN13: 9780671741136
• Release Date: June 1991
• Publisher: Simon Pulse
• Length: 121 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 4.2" x 6.6"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

Just a small stream would yield a river of thoughts....

I bought this book about ten years ago when I was in third grade, and I was immediately and completely enthralled by the very notion of reading about my favorite video game characters in a lush and exciting adventure. I was and supposedly am a Mario fanatic at heart (even now during my James Bond fan years) since I grew up playing the Super Mario Brothers games. To top off the perfection, I was in complete control of the decisions and the items. It was bliss for me as a young gradeschooler! That summer, I set off to work writing my own 120+ page adventure novel closely following the Leaping Lizards Adventure Book format (my story was about Super Mario World, though). My writing skills were youthful, but I decided to redo my novel two summers later. Even after that, I started prewriting for yet a third version as my thoughts and writing skills matured even more. I discovered that I was a great writer in middle school, and reading Leaping Lizards was probably a significant reason- it was an inspiration. I now want to be a storywriter and novelist, and I truly do not know how skilled I would be now (or if I would have even considered serious writing) without reading this book. I probably wouldn't have started writing my first novel until my sophomore year in high school, after I discovered James Bond literature, and critical skill development years would have drowned in the sands of time forever. I am not saying that I owe even a major part of my writing skills or interest in it to this book, since that would be false anyway. (I owe many of my writing skills to a respected English/Creative Writing teacher.) I am saying that this book was the catalyst for a person who has the potential to become a writer great enough to soar with and higher than all the other renowned writers of the world. Can you believe it? I still find it fantastic and incredible. Just one small drop in the stream of time... Just a small stream would yield a river of thoughts...

Good Plot

This book was good! I think everyone should buy the whole series.