By: Leisa Stewart-Sharpe / Illustrated by: Gordy WrightYOU are the treasure hunter . . .Following a trail of intriguing clues, take an epic journey around the world and discover heart-stopping true stories of treasure lost, stolen, and found. Exactly where
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By: Leisa Stewart-Sharpe / Illustrated by: Gordy Wright
Following a trail of intriguing clues, take an epic journey around the world and discover heart-stopping true stories of treasure lost, stolen, and found.
Exactly where is Queen Nefertitis mummy HIDDEN?
Can the Titanics treasures be SAVED from the waves?
Could you help find a Viking HOARD with a metal detector?
Countries around the world readers will visit:
Scotland
Norway
Egypt
Indonesia
India
Colombia
Madagascar
And many more
Kids will love this engaging and interactive book that’s chock-full of information and facts. THEY are the treasure hunter, and THEY get to be a map reader, code cracker, and puzzle solver, searching for lost treasure and figuring out the mystery.
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Leisa Stewart-Sharpe, author
Leisa Stewart-Sharpe is a journalist turned childrens author who grew up in Australia. She has traveled and adventured all over the world. Leisa has come face-to-face with an aye-aye in the Madagascan jungle, sweated across the grasslands of Kenya (chased by a herd of elephants!), and has snorkeled with sharks Down Under. Today Leisa writes childrens books from a shed in her English garden, including her bestselling nonfiction books. All of her books have one thing in common: theyre about wild places and written for wild children.
Read more about Leisa.
Gordy Wright, illustrator
Gordy Wright is an illustrator, printmaker, and picture-book maker from the UK. He studied illustration at the University of the West of England, and he enjoys playing with narratives and evoking natural, textured feeling in his illustrations.
Read more about Gordy.
Kirkus Reviews
Searching for treasure exhumes much more than pieces of eight.
Brown-skinned Saksham and Zuri and an unnamed pale-skinned child referred to as you (a stand-in for readers) undertake a round-the-world journey, always just one step behind the ghost of the infamous pirate Captain Kidd, whos apparently trying to purloin treasures as revenge for the riches he lost all those years ago. Their pursuit depends on the many convenient clues that Kidd has left for readers, providing motivation for aspiring map readers, code crackers, puzzle solvers, and inscription decipherers. Along the way, the children discover stories of both found and still-missing lost loot, including the Mona Lisa, the Viking ship Gokstad, Indias Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple, and Chinas Terracotta Army. The quest takes the indefatigable trio across the globe, digging up a fair amount of history on the way. Interspersing comics panels with captioned vignettes and full-page illustrations, Wrights brightly detailed and watercolorlike images evoke the far-flung destinations. Despite some editorial lapses, this engaging and information-packed U.K. import offers plenty of visual excitement, including changes of perspective, time period, and composition. The protagonists unearth facts related to geography, history, paleontology, archeology, and cryptic communication during their journey. The revelation at the end might be somewhat of a letdown, but no treasures were harmed during this protracted hunt.
Interactive fun that demonstrates that knowledge is the most rewarding treasure of all.
Hardcover
ISBN: 978-1-62354-629-8
Ages: 69
Page count: 64
81/2x 11
Publication date: June 10, 2025
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