Riddle Road: Puzzles in Poems and Pictures

by Elizabeth Spires

Following in the footsteps of their first collaboration, With One White Wing, poet Elizabeth Spires and acclaimed artist Erik Blegvad have seemlessly blended words and pictures to produce beguiling... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0689817835
• ISBN13: 9780689817830
• Release Date: May 1999
• Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books
• Length: 26 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.8" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 6 to 10 years
• Grade Range: Grades 1 to 5

Customer Reviews

Fun Book

My kids keep coming back to this book to their favorites to find the clue that reveals the answer. The book jacket mentions that the riddles "recall more ancient queries-the question rhymes from Mother Goose . . . or the riddle game between Bilbo baggins and Gollum in _The Hobbit_." They also reminded me of Beatrix Potters' _The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin_. The illustrations and actions in this book also give clues just like that story. Some clues are deliberately misleading, like seeing live horses galloping into the ocean when the real answer--seahorse--is instead carefully sculpted into the clouds. There is a pleasing mix of solving ability. My 5 year old was successful at a few, while a couple were a bit difficult for me. I would wait for the lower priced paperback edition to come out, as there are only 26 riddles.