An adventure game that takes readers on a voyage of discovery around the world. Each double-page spread portrays two different regions on the same continent such as Canada and Alaska, China and India, and Australia and New Zealand. The reader chooses one of these and follows the marked route (each step of which is accompanied by geographical details) to locate the magic globe. The reader then matches the colour of this globe to a globe on the World Map at the beginning of the book to find out which location to go to next. This process continues until the yellow globe is discovered. Then the reader has start all over again, taking a different route. This book gives many facts and insights into areas of geographical interest around the world and there are also lots of objects from the present to spot in each picture. Heather Maisner is the author of four stories about The Tractors of Thomson's Yard, the novelty books "Find Mouse in the House" and "Find Mouse in the Garden", and "The Magic Hourglass", a companion volume to "The Magic Globe". Alan Baron is the illustrator of the Read and Wonder title "What is a Wall After All?".
- ISBN10 0744523893
- ISBN13 9780744523898
- Publish Date 30 March 1995
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 8 December 2001
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Walker Books Ltd
- Edition New edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 29
- Language English