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Synopsis
CodeQuest is a brand-new narrative non-fiction series that challenges the reader to solve historical mysteries. Each title presents a unique, interactive story in which the reader learns about historical codes, pictograms and symbols by completing various code-breaking tasks.
A museum houses a splendid statue of a golden cat. It was once part of a pair... so where isits partner? A note inside the display case contains the first in a series of clues, and once it is deciphered, the adventure begins. The story spreads lead the reader from clue to clue, while information spreads form a perfect introduction to understanding Egyptian hieroglyphics
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About the Author
Sean Callery is a writer and primary-school teacher. He has written a number of information books for publishers such as HarperCollins and Which?, as well as musicals and educational articles.
From School Library Journal
Gr 3-7–Persistent children can learn to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphs in this interactive work. A first-person mystery story narrated by an Indiana Jones-like archaeologist provides a slender thread on which are hung multitudes of sidebars, factoids, captioned photos, graphic text elements, maps, and diagrams. Photos of Egyptian artifacts and sites are reasonably plentiful, but of such small size that they can be difficult to appreciate. The illustrations that accompany the archaeologist's story are rendered digitally, employing exaggerated perspective and texture mapping, which gives the book a video-game effect. The accompanying CD, however, includes a font for making one's own hieroglyphics on a computer–not a game. Determined readers will sift through the cacophony of clues to decode all the hieroglyphic and pictographic messages, but the design clutter and tiny typefaces will cause all but the most obsessed code breakers to give up.Paula Willey, Baltimore County Public Library, Towson, MD
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- PublisherKingfisher
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 075346411X
- ISBN 13 9780753464113
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages48
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