Six lucky children have won first prize in a geography competition: an amazing trip around the world by hot-air balloon. Lake Titicaca in Bolivia, a huge shopping mall in the United States, a bustling Beijing market, a Bollywood film set — each stop is an adventure. The reader’s challenge is to find all six children at each of the 12 destinations. Young readers get a captivating snapshot of many different parts of the world as they use their detective skills to round up the travelers for the next leg of their journey. Scot Ritchie’s wonderfully detailed illustrations make each vibrantly colored spread a treat to delve into over and over again.
Scot Ritchie is an award winning illustrator/author who lives in Vancouver Canada. He has illustrated 50 books, some of which he also wrote. His books have been translated into French, Korean, Indonesian, Polish, Finnish, Arabic and Dutch.
Scot has worked with the National Film Board of Canada and has had his work exhibited at the National Gallery of Canada.
In 2010 'Folllow that Map!', a book Scot wrote and illustrated, was nominated for the Norma Fleck Award for Canadian Children's Non Fiction.
His book "Let's Go!' (written by Lizann Flatt) was chosen as the 2009 give-away Book of the Year by the Canadian Children's Book Centre. This honour involves a special print run of half a million books - one given to every grade one student in Canada.
In 2008 Scot was chosen as artist of the year by British Columbia Library Association for their Summer Reading Club.
