Super Little Giant Book® of Secret Codes

by David Lambert, The Diagram Group, Super Little Giant Book®

Kids love secret codes, because it allows them to send special private messages to their friends…and outwit adults. And this Super Little Giant™ offers dozens of intriguing and colorfully displayed choices, with an easy-to-follow explanation of each system, a history of its development, and illustrations that show just how the code works. Some of the codes are well-known, including Morse, with its dots and dashes. Others are more rare, such as an ancient transposition cipher where the sender writes the message on a paper wrapped around a tube or stick. And artistic types will really enjoy the “dancing men” cryptogram, which has 26 drawn figures in different positions corresponding to the letters of the alphabet.

287 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 2007

About the author

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David Lambert is an editor with the prize-winning Diagram Group, which specializes in the creation of illustrated reference books of all kinds. For more than 50 years he has written about everything from dinosaurs and ancient civilizations to dogs and outer space. His name might not always be on the cover, but it is usually inside the book.