You can try selecting from a similar category, click on the authors name. The text is wordy, the age range here misleading-could a five-year-old rearrange ``abdhimnry'' to spell ``mynah bird''?-but would-be Sherlocks and amateur cryptanalysts with good verbal skills could not wish for anything more. We did a search for other books with a similar title, however there were no matches. There are more messages to be assembled, concealed words, secret codes, rhyming clues.

2001 by Paul Adshead (Author) 176 ratings See all formats and editions Hardcover 172.46 4 Used from 172.46 Paperback 79.86 8 Used from 11.58 1 New from 79.86 A tantalizing web of deceptive artwork and wordplay lures us to play detective in this fascinating and puzzling book. Once these amiable tasks have been accomplished, however, the hunt for the ``rare creature'' is far from over. Paul Adshead Puzzle Island (Child's Play Library) Hardcover 1 Jan. Adshead frames each picture with four alphabets letters from each are missing, and these can be unscrambled to disclose the names of the hidden animals. Each of 11 elaborately detailed illustrations depicts a different part of the island, and squirreled away in each are the figures of four different creatures (space between certain branches of one tree, for example, is shaped like an upside-down cow). But she has just had worst class ever, and her. and help me to save the rarest creature in the world from extinction.'' Thus begins an intricate, engrossing puzzle certain to happily bedevil reader-detectives. DANCING QUEENDescription : THE WORST GYMNAST Gemma loves gymnastics. ``Dear Friend,'' entreats this book's cover, ``I am in urgent need of your help.

Puzzle Island by Paul S. Adshead