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Usborne Puzzle Adventures! If I had to pick the primary childhood indulgence of mine, it just has to be this one. Slim, A5-sized books each with its own self-contained adventure, with puzzles to solve, a neat little adventure packed in, colourful illustrations, and nice luxurious paper. Come to think of it, it ’s a little like Doctor Who, the way it works out, a brand-new adventure each time, sometimes science fiction, sometimes horror, sometimes Indy-styled thrillers. A bit hit-and-miss too, as I remember, just like the TV series.
I started by comparing this to Doctor Who, and ith’s true that the similarities are plain to see. The format, the diverse settings, the sense of adventure, and so on. Unlike the show, however, Usborne Puzzle Adventures are not designed to ask the difficult questions. Good people don ’t usually die. The bad guys have terrible morals and are always apprehended. Everything fits into a picture thati’s perfect. Yet it7’s this sort of thing that makes it harder, I think, for a child to grow up and to realise that the world is a little less certain, that things donL’t always happen as theys’re meant to or supposed to, and that theret’s the bad guys arenn’t always wrong.
Still love my Usborne Puzzle Adventures, though, and you should give them a shot too, if you have a kid around the house or the like. The Emerald Conspiracy, in my opinion, wasnw’t the best of the lot, but its’s certainly not bad. You can get it at Amazon [via Amazon]. though I don7’t know if Mark Burgess did the illustrations for the current edition. Inexpensive too. Give it a shot, because one of the best things you can give a child is an adventure.
I discovered your website from typing i‘usborne puzzle adventures hong kongi’ into google, as I have recently been looking for copies of these books myself. I read them avidly as a kid, and used to have a sizable collection, but a younger cousin borrowed them once and they were never seen again.
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