Tony's Treasure Hunt

by Holly Peterson, John Lawrence Peterson

A delightful Children's book

Genres: Picture Books

48 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1964

About the author

Holly Peterson is the author of It Happens in the Hamptons, a work of fast-paced social satire about a summer community. She wrote The Idea of Him and the New York Times bestseller The Manny and SMOKE AND FIRE: Recipes and Menus for Entertaining Outdoors. She was a Contributing Editor for Newsweek, an Editor-at-Large for Talk magazine and an Emmy Award–winning Producer for ABC News, where she spent more than a decade covering global politics and trials of the century. Her writing has been published in the New York Times, Newsweek, Town and Country, Talk, The Daily Beast, Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, and numerous other publications.

Reviews

[Erin Fencil]

The mystery and treasure-hunt clues in this book were irresistible to kid me back in the day, and I was fascinated with the cryptography of each clue, namely matching letters to numbers and especially backwards writing that could be viewed in a mirror. I thought I was so clever figuring that one out!

I recently shared this with my first-grader and he appreciated the clever puzzles as well. It's a good book for a beginning reader, as much of the text is sight words and context clues in the illustrations helped him with some of the tougher words.

Parents be aware: after reading this book, your kiddo will want to embark on their own treasure hunt! This brings back memories because my folks and grandfolks would send us off on treasure hunts with scraps of paper that sent us searching around their house, and solving the clues was as much fun as the candy or toy at the end.

[Hawthorn Mineart]

Cute book that I happened to buy a single framed page of several years ago. Tony finds a series of clues and follows them to find a treasure.

[Maggie]

I have this book in it's original title "Terry's Treasure Hunt"