Friday, July 29, 2011

Mummies & Co

The globe-investigators: Destination Paris
by Nicolas Ancion, ill. Bruno Tatti

Alex and his sister Maya, the mascots of Graine2 Travelling Kids, are ready for the most exciting adventures. While on holiday in Paris, the two children experience strange adventures: the mummies of the Louvre Museum have vanished, an ancient parchment is stolen from a huge Russian man with a hieroglyth tattoo on the neck, people in the street mysteriously disappear. From the Louvre to the National Library, the metro's corridors to the top of the Eiffel Tower, the children will run around the city using brains and bravery to save the capital city from a great danger.
The text is complemented with sketches, photographs and information in the margins. 224 pages novel, 16 x 21 cm, b&w illustrations
8 to 12 years old