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by Leisa Stewart-Sharpe (Author), Gordy Wright (Illustrator)
Switch on your metal detector, grab your compass, and follow the clues. It's time for YOU to do some treasure hunting of your own! Because X marks the spot . . . or does it?
Perfect for fans of Atlas Obscura Explorer's Guide for the World's Most Adventurous Kid, this nonfiction adventure book will have 6-9 year-olds wanting to travel the world. 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 Nefertiti's mummy HIDDEN?
- Can the Titanic's treasures be SAVED from the waves?
- Could you help find a Viking HOARD with a metal detector?
Find out which artist's work has been STOLEN more than 80 times and where you can DIG UP the tooth of a T. rex as YOU become the treasure hunter . . . 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.
Author Biography
Leisa Stewart-Sharpe is a journalist turned children's 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 children's books from a shed in her English garden, including her bestselling nonfiction books. All of her books have one thing in common: they're about wild places and written for wild children.
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.www.gordywright.com
