Ron Roy’s April Adventure is an Easter treasure hunt for 5 year olds that begins with a secret note left on a pillow at six in the morning.<\/p>\n
This one’s number four in the Calendar Mysteries. Bradley wakes up the day before Easter because something has touched his ear. A shadowy figure is tiptoeing out of the room. On his pillow is a plastic egg with a note inside, signed The Shadow.<\/p>\n
Brian, Nate and Lucy (who are sleeping over) all find eggs too. Put the notes together and it’s a treasure hunt! There are twelve plastic eggs hidden around the park and the schools. And to win the treasure they need to find four REAL eggs as well.<\/p>\n
So who’s the Shadow? Brian reckons it’s his big brother Josh, who has a computer and a sleepover of his own going on down the hall. But is he right?<\/p>\n
The hunt itself is SO much fun. Eggs turn up in a fountain, up a tree, in the oven of a little playhouse and inside a wooden goat’s mouth. Each one has a treat inside, like jelly beans, a cookie or a shiny dime (Brian thinks it’s very unfair that Lucy gets money).<\/p>\n
Then there’s the problem of the real eggs. Nobody can find them anywhere. The suspects include a man out walking his dog, a family of raccoons and a big black snake with a very suspicious bump in its tummy. Who wouldn’t want to solve that?<\/p>\n
There’s lots of nature mixed in, too. Two swans hiss at Bradley from the pond. A mother raccoon peeps out of a hole in a tree. Your reader picks up a few real facts along the way, like why some animals go looking for eggs to eat.<\/p>\n
It’s full of little jokes as well. Brian would like ketchup on his eggs, please. Everyone gets in on the egg puns (eggs-tra syrup, anyone?). And when Brian pokes a bees’ nest on the baseball field, he and Nate come running back yelling BEES! The snake is the only part that gets a bit shivery, and it soon slides away into the weeds.<\/p>\n
It’s a sunny, kind story with a very happy feel at the end. If your reader likes a hunt with clues to follow and lots of running about, it’s a great pick.<\/p>\n
If they enjoy the birds-and-nests side of this one, the big kids get a nature puzzle of their own in The Falcon’s Feathers, where Josh, Dink and Ruth Rose find the baby birds have gone from a nest in the woods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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