Journey to Gameland How to Make a Board Game from Your Favorite Children's Book Ben Buchanan, Carol J. Adams, Susan Allison
ISBN: 1930051514 Book (Paperback) Lantern Books List Price: $12.95
"A brilliant guide for making books come alive! I especially loved Ben's insightful game creation suggestions. Filled with facts and fun, this book will have whole families reading, discovering and playing together."—Jennifer Anglin, owner, The Enchanted Forest Bookstore, Dallas, Texas
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.
Ben Buchanan currently resides in Tulsa, Oklahoma. A student at the University of Tulsa, Ben is studying classical and jazz piano, and will graduate with a degree in Piano Performance in May of 2011. He enjoys giving his own concerts as well as participating in community and philanthropy recitals. He is in the drumline and performs with the university marching band along with many other ensembles. Ben also enjoys his studies in sign language and Deaf culture.
Carol J. Adams is the author of the landmark book The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory and The Pornography of Meat. Besides advancing scholarship and developing theory in the area of interlocking oppressions, Carol has created a series of books that address the vegetarian/vegan experience: Living Among Meat Eaters: The Vegetarian Survival Guide, Help! My Child Stopped Eating Meat! and The Inner Art of Vegetarianism and Meditations on the Inner Art of Vegetarianism. She lives outside Dallas, Texas.
Susan Allison is the Youth Services Supervisor at the Richardson Public Library, the recipient of the Siddie Joe Johnson Award for Outstanding Children’s Librarian in the State of Texas, and a past chair of the Children’s Roundtable of the Texas Library Association.
Ben Buchanan currently resides in Tulsa, Oklahoma. A student at the University of Tulsa, Ben is studying classical and jazz piano, and will graduate with a degree in Piano Performance in May of 2011. He enjoys giving his own concerts as well as participating in community and philanthropy recitals. He is in the drumline and performs with the university marching band along with many other ensembles. Ben also enjoys his studies in sign language and Deaf culture.
Carol J. Adams is the author of the landmark book The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory and The Pornography of Meat. Besides advancing scholarship and developing theory in the area of interlocking oppressions, Carol has created a series of books that address the vegetarian/vegan experience: 
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