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The Grand Celebration.
Horace turns eleven and celebrates with a splendid party!
Invited are twelve animal friends, all ready for a joyous banquet at the stroke of 11 P.M. But when the time comes for the birthday banquet, a most bizarre mystery is revealed.
The Puzzling Affair.
Join Horace and his friends in solving the mind-boggling mystery of the missing feast.
Pore over intricate illustrations, decipher hidden clues, and unravel the riddles to find out who the culprit is.
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The Grand Celebration.
Horace turns eleven and celebrates with a splendid party!
Invited are twelve animal friends, all ready for a joyous banquet at the stroke of 11 P.M. But when the time comes for the birthday banquet, a most bizarre mystery is revealed.
The Puzzling Affair.
Join Horace and his friends in solving the mind-boggling mystery of the missing feast.
Pore over intricate illustrations, decipher hidden clues, and unravel the riddles to find out who the culprit is.
From the author of classic children’s books such as Animalia, Uno’s Garden and The Waterhole, this picture book, first published in 1988, is one of the greatest illustrated mysteries any child could ever hope for.
There is a birthday party, and a birthday feast is prepared, and games are played, and presents are gifted, and then – the feast has vanished before any of the guests have had a single bite! Who ate it? And when? And how could they eat so much, so quickly?
Despite appearances, this is not a picture book for the very young, but rather an intriguing whodunnit, and one the reader will need to comb their way through again and again. Every inch of every page could hold a clue, every picture reveals another layer. And just when you think you’ve discovered every possible secret, trust me, you’re not even close! For ages 5+.
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