Your Very Own Story: The Ginger-bread City

By Aevar Thor Benediktsson

Your own story: Gingerbread City is about delicious pastries, a huge baking oven, cruel witches – and YOU! Because you decide what happens!

Your Very Own Story: The Ginger-bread City is the eleventh book in the ever-popular Your Own Book Series, which has won both the Children’s Book Award and the Bookseller Award. The masterful illustrations are made by Evana Kisa.

Ævar Þórs Benediktsson’s books, where the reader is in charge, have enjoyed immense popularity in recent years. Your Very Own Story is a simpler version of the Icelandic bestseller series  “Your Very Own-books”, that takes one character from each book and gives them their individual story, with more images and simpler text. Here, the reader is the main character and gets to decide what happens, each book has more than 10 different endings! A thrilling interactive reading experience, that can be read again and again! The series uses a special font designed to make reading easier for people with reading disorders.

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About the author

Aevar Thor Benediktsson is an Icelandic actor and author of more than 30 books, most known for his bestselling Your Very Own Series, where the reader takes an active role in shaping the storyline. Benediktsson has won several awards for his books, including the Icelandic Children’s Book Award and The Bookseller’s Award. He is also an engaged promoter of reading and takes inspiration from the gaming world to attract young people to reading. For this, he has been nominated for the ALMA award twice and awarded by the Icelandic Ministry of Culture and Education.