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Puzzles and Pastimes for Kids Ages 6-8 — Pirates and Treasure
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Pirates and Treasure

Puzzles and Pastimes for Kids Ages 6-8

From the ship's deck to the secret cave, twenty-two places to search.

The crew and the treasure map, the chest of coins, the compass and the stars, knots and ropes, the storm, the port and its market, the lookout on the mast, the lighthouse at night and the message in a bottle. Ninety puzzles to find the treasure, and twenty-two stories to read beside the crosswords.

  • 90 puzzles
  • 131 pages
  • Ages 6-8
  • Full colour
  • Answers included

$14.99 · paperback

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8.5 × 11 in · Ciccolino Books · English

Why read it

Adventure

Every few puzzles, a square with a red border hides a letter. The letters you collect spell out the treasure message: the book isn't a pile of exercises, it's one story to walk through.

Mystery

Five different kinds of puzzle — word searches, crosswords, mazes, sudoku, secret codes — that take turns and get harder page after page, from rookie to champion.

Independence

Big squares made for small hands, words a child that age can already read, and all the answers at the back: they can check their own work without asking.

Real pages, not mockups

Look inside the book

On the left, a story to read, with the words in colour; on the right, the crossword built from those same words. There are twenty-two pairs like this in the book.

Pirates and Treasure
  • The reading page — Pirates and Treasure

    The reading page

    A full-colour illustrated story for every crossword.

  • The word search — Pirates and Treasure

    The word search

    Ten or eleven squares a side, each one over a centimetre wide.

  • The crossword — Pirates and Treasure

    The crossword

    Written clues and a few letters given away.

  • The sudoku — Pirates and Treasure

    The sudoku

    Four by four: shapes first, then numbers.

Ninety puzzles, five kinds, difficulty that grows

You start as a rookie and finish as a champion: in the word search the words start hiding diagonally and backwards, the free letters get fewer, the mazes get trickier, the sudoku move from shapes to numbers. All the answers are at the back, so a child can check their own work.

  • 30 Word searches Grids ten or eleven squares a side, each square over a centimetre wide.
  • 22 Crosswords Written clues and a few letters given away.
  • 14 Mazes With dead ends, like the real ones.
  • 14 Secret codes Symbols to decipher to read the message.
  • 10 Sudoku Four by four: shapes first, then numbers.
  • 22 Reading pages A full-colour illustrated story for every crossword.

The twenty-two worlds in the book

Each world has its own words, its own crossword and its own illustrated reading page.

  • The pirate ship
  • The crew
  • The treasure map
  • The chest and the coins
  • The mystery island
  • The sea and the waves
  • Sea animals
  • Island birds
  • The compass and the stars
  • Knots and ropes
  • Life on board
  • Cooking on board
  • The storm
  • The port and the market
  • The beach and the sand
  • The secret cave
  • The pirate code
  • What a pirate wears
  • The lookout on the mast
  • The lighthouse at night
  • The message in a bottle
  • The treasure found

For parents and teachers

  • Big 8.5 × 11 inch format: the grids stay readable and there's room for a pencil.
  • No battles, no violence: even the history books tell about everyday life.
  • The twenty-two reading pages are written to be read alone at that age, or together with an adult.
  • The same layout in every book of the series: the child recognises the structure and gets faster at it.
  • Full colour inside, complete answers, a certificate at the end to fill in.
An adult and a child at the kitchen table with a puzzle book, in the light from the window

What readers say

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The other books

Same layout, different world: a child who has finished one gets going faster on the next.

Paper, a pencil, nothing else

Ninety puzzles that end with a treasure

A gift for children who learn better by playing. Big format, full colour inside, all the answers, and a certificate at the end to fill in with your own name.

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