Kid Detectives: The Perilous Problem of the Howling Hurricane
Will be published approx. on 27. August 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
32 pages
978-1-5263-3031-4 (ISBN)
Description
Join a group of four kid detectives and help them find out about STEM while developing problem solving, observation and deduction, and investigation skills.
Our Kid Detectives Isla, Farah, Sam and Mohammad are visiting the local TV studio when their favourite band arrives to promote their upcoming concert! The extreme weather prediction comes in at the same time - it looks like a hurricane is approaching. The studio is hesitant to run the story - but why?
Join the Detective gang as they investigate the impact of hurricanes, climate change and work to ensure people are warned in time. Can the Kid Detectives save the day?
Featured interactive elements:
Looking for clues in the illustrations
Tracking the path of a hurricane
Spotting the incorrect items in an emergency kit
Gathering crucial information from information panels about weather, meteorologists and climate change
Through interactive adventures that combine facts, brain-teasing puzzles and lively illustrations, these books impart STEM knowledge in an original way to inspire a love of the subject. The story in each book will have the reader solving puzzles, finding clues, cracking secret codes and uncovering mysteries.
Perfect for aspiring detectives aged 7+.
Our Kid Detectives Isla, Farah, Sam and Mohammad are visiting the local TV studio when their favourite band arrives to promote their upcoming concert! The extreme weather prediction comes in at the same time - it looks like a hurricane is approaching. The studio is hesitant to run the story - but why?
Join the Detective gang as they investigate the impact of hurricanes, climate change and work to ensure people are warned in time. Can the Kid Detectives save the day?
Featured interactive elements:
Looking for clues in the illustrations
Tracking the path of a hurricane
Spotting the incorrect items in an emergency kit
Gathering crucial information from information panels about weather, meteorologists and climate change
Through interactive adventures that combine facts, brain-teasing puzzles and lively illustrations, these books impart STEM knowledge in an original way to inspire a love of the subject. The story in each book will have the reader solving puzzles, finding clues, cracking secret codes and uncovering mysteries.
Perfect for aspiring detectives aged 7+.
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Hachette Children's Group
Target group
Children/juvenile
Interest Age: From 7 years
Dimensions
Height: 206 mm
Width: 162 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
100 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5263-3031-4 (9781526330314)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Adam Bushnell (Author)
Adam is a former teacher who turned his hand to writing full time in 2007. He has written both adult teaching guides and children's fiction books and is often touring schools and libraries and running creative writing sessions. He lives in Durham.
John Haslam (Illustrator)
John Haslam has been working as an illustrator for most of his professional life. John worked in advertising for 10 years and worked on various projects including TV storyboards, to illustrating for all kinds of accounts from Pritt Stick (the Pritt Stick Man was his invention), to comic pages such as Danger Mouse, Disney and Transformers.
Adam is a former teacher who turned his hand to writing full time in 2007. He has written both adult teaching guides and children's fiction books and is often touring schools and libraries and running creative writing sessions. He lives in Durham.
John Haslam (Illustrator)
John Haslam has been working as an illustrator for most of his professional life. John worked in advertising for 10 years and worked on various projects including TV storyboards, to illustrating for all kinds of accounts from Pritt Stick (the Pritt Stick Man was his invention), to comic pages such as Danger Mouse, Disney and Transformers.