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by Graeme Base |
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the Publisher
Bestseller Graeme Base harks back to his
classic New York Times
bestselling solve-the-mystery story
The Eleventh Hour
in an all-new book that will “puzzle” and
entice young readers.
Enter a magical world in this warm, funny, and enduring
story about the special relationship between a grandson
and his grandpa—and their love for magic.
Bertie Badger loves to
visit the Retirement Home for Elderly Magicians and
watch his grandpa perform magic tricks. But one day all
the magicians’ props go missing, so Bertie sets off to
investigate. Can he solve the mystery in time to save
the show? This clever book will engage readers as they
are challenged to solve the mystery along with Bertie,
discovering where the missing props have gone by using a
decoder included with the book that reveals the mystery.
Graeme Base, creator of Animalia
and many bestselling and beloved books for children,
conjures up an inventive, irresistible tale.
Publishers Weekly
Akin to
The Eleventh Hour, this über-puzzle
of a picture book asks readers to crack codes and find
hidden pictures, all in aid of solving a mystery relayed
in rhyming quatrains. Young Bertie Badger arrives at the
opulent country home of his grandfather, "a conjurer of
note" known as Gadzooks the Great, anticipating an
extraordinary magic show, but-horrors!-Gadzooks's and
the other performers' props have disappeared. Readers
could simply hunt for the missing objects, which Base
conceals within elaborately detailed paintings, but then
they would miss out on the tricky fun of mastering
several codes also embedded in the book-not to mention
that finding those hidden pictures without benefit of
the encoded clues isn't easy, not even for alums of
Where's Waldo?For the impatient,
Base supplies a huge hint; where
Eleventh Hour forced the desperate to break a seal
to get answers, readers need not alter anything to avail
themselves of help, making this volume a cinch to share.
A set of bonus challenges will keep kids (and older
siblings) poring closely over the pages for weeks,
enthralled. Ages 5-10.
(Sept.)
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