Book of Signs (Diadem
John Peel
- Reading
- Try pausing at the clues and warnings to compare your guesses with the characters’ choices; this suits the story’s puzzle-solving invitation without needing to solve every mystery in advance.
- Themes
- Puzzle-solving and mystery: Clues from an unknown helper and questions about the Diadem’s rulers create an ongoing mystery; readers are invited to solve puzzles with the characters. The puzzle-solving invitation makes uncovering information part of the adventure, rather than only something that happens to the characters.
- Worth knowing
- The adventure includes life-threatening peril from hostile creatures and a pursuing magician; the opening also refers to the children having killed a wizard in an earlier confrontation.