Why I built it
The adult book is one of my favorites — and way too complex for my son to read on his own. Even when I read it out loud, he kept having to stop and ask what things meant.
So I rebuilt it: same Jason, same vibes, written so he can pick it up, follow it, and engage with it himself — at his level, without me translating every other sentence.
What went into it
This isn't one-prompt AI slop. I built a pipeline first — the rules, the checks, the whole workflow — then ran the adaptation through it with real due diligence. Original scenes that keep the story's job, not a rewrite of the adult book
- Same job, new scenes Kept what each chapter has to do for the story — then built new scenes for him, not a watered-down copy of the adult pages
- Rulebooks before drafts The how-to guides got locked before any chapter draft started
- Plan before sentences What happens in each chapter and which hard words show up when — mapped before a sentence got adapted
- Checked at his level Every chapter screened for him — hard walls cut, word swaps double-checked
- Book and workbook together The Field Log is a full Adventurer's Workbook — built to Georgia Grade 4 expectations, not a vocab sheet: sentence work, spotting what matters, summarizing, thinking it through — same judgment that shaped the book, second product