Have you come across one of those books that invite you to "choose your own adventure"? The original ones were by Steve Jackson, but there are other versions now, including R L Stine's Goosebumps series - "Give Yourself Goosebumps".

In these types of books you make a decision at the bottom of each page, and depending on how you choose ("Do you fight the goblin or run away?"), you turn to a different page. So there's an exciting feeling that you're controlling the story yourself.

Hypertext can do that, too. It can give you - the reader - choices, and all you have to do is click to go there.

Hypertext doesn't necessarily work like this. It's more intuitive, allowing the reader to follow their inclination, to the read the story or text in a way that seems logical to them.

Children who haven't yet fallen into linear ways of writing are quick to see the potential for branching stories and other ways of linking their own and others' writing together.

For an example of a choose-your-own-adventure type hypertext (just ONE example of what you can do in new media that isn't possible in print), see Daisy and the Intergalactic Travelling Salesmen on the Kids on the Net website.

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