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MASQUERADE

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Kit Williams created a beautiful golden, bejeweled hare, which he buried somewhere in England in 1980. He then created a picture book of his own artwork. Each picture hid both clues and false leads indicating the location of the buried jewel, and anyone was invited to seek after it and keep it for himself. Though the prize was found about a year later, the picture book remains one of the most challenging puzzles accessible to the ordinary person and is vastly entertaining in its own right.

I've owned this book for many years - since I was about ten years old - and I still don't tire of looking through it and marvelling at the wonderful combination of story, riddles and art. The story of Jack Hare's trials while trying to deliver a gift from the Lady Moon to Master Sun is engaging - thrilled me when I was young and puzzles-within-the-story were (and some still are) very challenging. The illustrations are lavish - and, of course, laden with clues to the mystery within the book. I certainly reccomend this for anyone who enjoys solving puzzles, reading fantasy or, best yet, both!

I have searched for this book, like some have searched for the jewel!

WOW. To finally find it. I was given a hard back copy of this book from my father in the mid 80's, probably the 87' printing.

What is this book about?, is it the book you've been searching for? This is the book "Masqureade" by Kit Williams. The book is now out of print, and the treasure has been found (and lost) so to speak since it's debut in the early 80's. Kit made this book to become like a world wide treasure hunt. The rabbit in the story is sent off with a beautiful necklace. A gift from the Moon to the Sun. The Moon has fallen in love with the Sun. But along the way the necklace gets lost. You are supposed to look for clues in the pages, in the riddles and find the hidden pictures to solve the riddle. If you were the first person to find all the clues and send Kit a letter with the details (all the answers being correct) you could go and get this necklace for yourself. You could own it. It was valued at [$$$] at the time the book was released. A year later the riddle was solved and yes the necklace was found. Although the story has a sad ending, apparently the people who found the necklace cheated.[...]There was also a later paperback printing of this book WITH the answers in the book. Since the jewel had already been found.

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This book was amazing! It was my favorite stroy when I was little and still is. All the beautiful and rich pictures helps bring the story to life. It's full of riddles that never end. The Masquerade was well written and keeps the reader coming back to solve the mystory of were the hare lost the moons gift to the sun.

I shredded to death the copy from the library as a prepubescent. I have searched ever since to own my own copy. By chance, the very day I happened to read an obscure newspaper a year later (at 12 years old, any newspaper is an obscure one, in retrospect), and I saw a small blurb about the park where the jewel was located.

I recall the artwork was beyond compare. I hope someday to find such a copy.

Artist Kit Williams wanted people to look at his pictures-- to study them intently. He found a brilliant device; hidden in the rich illustrations are clues to a treasure. The treasure has since been found (by people who cheated), but it is still fun to study the drawings. Small children will enjoy finding the hare on each page, and will enjoy the charming story as well.

The story is the love tale of the moon and the sun. After falling in love with the sun, the moon sends him a beautiful, gold, bejeweled hare, which she entrusts to Jack Hare to deliver. Jack loses the gift, and the reader is challenged to find it.

For the solution buy it here at Amazon.com But try it on your own first. Hint: Henry VIII had six wives, but only one matters.

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It is a good story, maybe close to very good, but that is not what makes this book so wonderful. The craft and illustrations are more than excellent. Solving the mystery is engaging, vexing and great fun. Masquerade is as complex as one could hope for and the solution is so delightfully simple, once you know it.
This book is a masterpiece that has engaged me for years. It was the inspiration for my own book TREASURE Twenty One Paintings and a Key.

I have studied this book inside and out and it provided the perfect example of an artistic puzzler. Thank you Kit Williams for this amazing and inspiring book!

To find the places described in the book around the city ,let me think of the treasure map the vikins leaved behind them.

Masquerade

Out of all the characters, my favorite one was Ronnie, because he sounds like into Angel.

I liked this book because it starts of on a party.

Ronnie sees this girl that he liked, but she is wearing a mask, and couldn't see what she looked like. They started talking and said that they would meet at her school the next day. So the next day Ronnie went to school and told Todd that he met a girl at a costume party, that was really pretty, but he didn't see her face. He told them that they were dancing and then they were talking. He also told them that he was going to go to her school right after school. He asked Todd that where were the other guys. Todd said that they were at the court. When Ronnie and Todd got there he told them all about that girl. During class all what Ronnie did was to think about that girl and couldn't wait for class to end so that he could go to that girl school. Right after school Ronnie ran to her school and waited for her to get out. The only problem was that he didn't knew which girl was that one at the party, because the girl was wearing a mask. He asked every pretty girl that if they were the girl at the party. While he was asking some girls, a girl screamed out his name. Once he saw the girl he was surprised, because he didn't thought that girl was pretty. They walked home without saying a word. When they got home and said goodbye, Ronnie told the girl that it was nice meeting her.

The reason I recommend this book it's because it is really interesting and it graves your attention.