The Magic Globe: An Around-the-World Adventure Game

by Heather Maisner, Alan Baron (Illustrator)

An adventure game that takes readers on a voyage of discovery around the world. Each double-page spread portrays two different regions on the same continent such as Canada and Alaska, China and India, and Australia and New Zealand. The reader chooses one of these and follows the marked route (each step of which is accompanied by geographical details) to locate the magic globe. The reader then matches the colour of this globe to a globe on the World Map at the beginning of the book to find out which location to go to next. This process continues until the yellow globe is discovered. Then the reader has start all over again, taking a different route. This book gives many facts and insights into areas of geographical interest around the world and there are also lots of objects from the present to spot in each picture. Heather Maisner is the author of four stories about The Tractors of Thomson's Yard, the novelty books "Find Mouse in the House" and "Find Mouse in the Garden", and "The Magic Hourglass", a companion volume to "The Magic Globe". Alan Baron is the illustrator of the Read and Wonder title "What is a Wall After All?".

32 pages, Paperback

First published April 6, 1995

About the author

Heather Maisner is author of over 30 children's books, translated into 8 languages, including the award-winning Magic Hourglass, Magic Globe and Diary of a Princess. She also teaches creative writing to children.

Her books range from picture books to books for fluent young readers to historical non-fiction. Many of her books combine fiction with fact and games with information, they are ideal for beginner and reluctant readers.

Heather loves to walk, dance, travel (speaks five languages), make bread and cook for her large family - and amazing black cat.

Reviews

[Bronwyn · Rating 4 out of 5]

I remember reading this as a kid and really liking it. What an engaging way to get started with geography!