A Punishment of Tengu I first read this story because I was interested in reading an Asian myth. A lot of the stories seemed to focus on Greek mythology, and while I find that topic very interesting, I was intrigued to learn about some folklore I have very little knowledge of. Once I started reading the storybook I really enjoyed that the format was a choose your own adventure style. I used to love reading those books as a kid and it was cool to learn about Japanese mythology by going on the adventure myself.
The Book of All Letters I looked at this story because I find folklore regarding language so interesting. I recently read a novel that focused on some mythology regarding the origins of words and the power of certain words. The book was very interesting and the story Runes from this storybook reminded me of the novel a lot. This was another choose your own adventure story (kind of). You got to choose between certain words and that served as the transition between stories. This was interesting and helped the stories move along. I really enjoyed this format because it was interactive despite not having the reader as the protagonist as in the Punishment of Tengu.
Peter Pan: Revisited I was interested in this story to begin with because I really liked Peter Pan as a kid and read several Peter Pan/ Neverland set books as a young reader. What I really liked about this story was the concept of revisiting such a well-known story from a different perspective. By looking at Peter Pan where Hook is the hero and Peter is the villain was an interesting and fun way to imagine this story. I also liked that it was told from a third person perspective as opposed to more of a first person or second person style as in the storybooks above. I just prefer to read stories written in that style. Additionally, I liked the formatting of the website, it was simple and didn't distract from the story.
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