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Peer through the windows at the meticulously detailed rooms and scenes. Search for 78 hidden objects. Arrange 38 press-out figures: knights, ladies-in-waiting, a kingdom of characters. A 24-page booklet provides details of medieval life, scenes to set up (banquets and the like) as well as a mystery to solve.
The second is Pirate Plunder's Treasure Hunt: A Pop-Up Whodunit, a mystery with three different endings (Dutton, $16.99, all ages, 0525456937). Ian Smith, creator of Mystery of the Russian Ruby, has done it again, this time with a cast of characters such as Willie Steele, Dr. Rex Havoc, and Lady Ruth Less.
Follow the intrigue via flaps, clues, tabs to pull, objects to find, and surprises on every page, plus a pop-up pirate ship in the middle of the book. Plenty of humor and fun here, and then you can start over again by turning a wheel, which changes the clues -- truly ingenious.
My three-year-old son's favorite is Circus Playscene, another in the line of Duplo Playbooks illustrated by Maureen Roffey (Little, Brown, $19.95, ages 2-up, 0316723819). The playscene backdrop is a cardboard Big Top interior, ready for the antics of the included Duplo figures of Peppo the Clown, Samson the sea lion, and Otto the Elephant, plus blocks and directions to use them to perform seven circus tricks. Moms and dads will need to help small children set up these feats, but the stage is also set for individual play.
Alice Cary loves to read and play at her home in Groton, Massachusetts.
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