Playful Detective • Ages 6–8

Playful Detective

A hand-curated reading adventure for young readers who love mysteries, clues, secret messages and solving things for themselves.

Every great mystery starts with a really good book.

Bradley helps choose our Mystery books, looking for stories he'd be excited to recommend to another curious reader. We use the information you share about your child to help choose a book we think they'll be excited to open.

Then we turn reading into a little investigation of their own.

Every Playful Detective Adventure Includes

• A brand-new mystery book chosen especially for the reader
• Detective Notebook for clues, suspects, theories and important discoveries
• Antique Key - because every good mystery needs something that doesn't quite make sense yet
• Vintage Map Bookmark to keep their place in the case
• Magnifying Glass for closer investigation
• Invisible Ink Pen for writing and revealing secret messages
• A Tiny Hidden Surprise - an acorn container hiding three glow-in-the-dark spiders
• Adventure Companion to join them on the case
• Mystery Writing Tool
• Six Mystery Stickers
• Share the Adventure Library Card & Pocket to pass the book along when their case is complete
• UV Clue Experience with a secret message waiting to be uncovered
• Mystery Activity for a little more detective work beyond the book
  

Books, colours, evidence, stickers and other mystery surprises will vary from adventure to adventure. That's part of the fun!

Their Mission

Read. Investigate. Follow the clues. See where the mystery takes you.

The book is always at the heart of the adventure, with a little detective work along the way to make opening it even more fun.

How It Works

After you place your order, you'll receive a link in your email confirmation to our quick Adventure Profile.

The profile is a short Google form where you can tell us about your reader - books they've loved, what they're interested in right now, anything they've already read and anything else you'd like us to know.

That helps us choose a book we think they'll be excited to open and put together an adventure with their reader profile in mind.

Then we take it from there.

Every Mystery Reading Adventure is packed by hand, so no two will be exactly alike. The book and many of the colours, evidence pieces, stickers and surprises will vary depending on the reader and what we have available.

Have a special request? Leave us a note in the Adventure Profile and we'll do our best to make it happen.