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SOLVED. Children’s Search and Find Picture book about following a Thief through a city by tracing his route. [s]
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Jul 17, 2022 05:32PM
I read this book as a child, so I believe it came out sometime in the late 90s to early 2000s. I think it was called MasterThief but I can’t find anything related to it online. It was about a thief who was taking things and you had to trace his route on each page. I remember each page was a different scene of the city and they were all connected (like one scene would be of the street and once you traced his route it would end at a subway entrance and then the next spread would be of the subway platform). A lot of the scenes also has specific limitations too, like there was a museum scene where the route needed to avoid any security guards. You also had to figure out what he stole from each page. It was sort of like a maze picture book and it was all drawings. The outside was tan colored.
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Masterthief by Richard Burnie - Simi's suggestion.Biblio.com shows screenshots of a few inside pages: https://www.biblio.com/book/masterthi...
Description on Amazon:
Hard cover, 32 p. ... plunks readers into a teeming cityscape to sleuth out a bandit, his booty, his trail and the two suave detectives tailing him. Fabrizzi is the perp's name, theft is his game. While figuring out what Fabrizzi has swiped - everything from a bust (lifted from the museum) to a wig to a potty - isn't overly taxing, Burnie ups the ante considerably with multiple challenges, e.g., asking readers to track Fabrizzi's convoluted path through mazes of streets, sewer pipes and market stalls. Burnie's full-scale, highly detailed paintings cover every inch of the pages, using cutaways, aerial views and other dramatic angles to reveal city highways, byways, hallways and stairways. He happily complicates the proceedings with lookalikes and red herrings galore. (Solutions are offered at the end.) Sophisticated artwork and a distinctive retro flavor (fashions, automobile styling and other decor suggest the gangster era of the '20s and '30s) give the book added pizzazz.
