The Magician’s Library: Mystery Puzzles for Kids (Puzzle Quest)

Great fun and challenging for children

Sturdy and great value

I was the type of child that loved a puzzle book growing up and would sometimes even use my imagination to link the tasks within something like ‘Junior Puzzler’ with a story. Collins must have had a similar upbringing as they have released a set of ‘Puzzle Quest’ books that combine a story together with puzzles that would suit a puzzle loving 7–10-year-old.The books are essentially the same with just the theme being replaced, space, time travel, magical creatures, magic lands. The story is not much more than an introduction for each puzzle but does keep the tale moving along. The puzzles themselves are the best with a nice mix of words, number and observation puzzles. Each is in keeping with the theme of the book so you may see a planet or a pheonix.As all the books are so similar you will want to spread out reading them as you will come across some common style puzzles. They also suffer from the same issue of being on slightly dull grey paper. This makes the books more affordable, but slightly less special. The ‘Puzzle Quest’ books would work perfectly for children to tackle on a long car journey or in quieter moments of a holiday.

Suitably challenging and well-designed. A good balance of fun puzzles that encourage mathematical and logical thinking. Needed occasional adult guidance- just about the right level of challenge for an 8 year old boy who is quite good at logical thinking and problem-solving.

This puzzle book is fantastic, my daughter teally enjoyed the puzzles and they are engaing! She had minimal help from us and I do find her pushing herself with this! We love the stories in these books!

Kept our 2 8 and 9 year olds entertained and interested would recommend

I bought two copies to give as gifts but then my 7 and 9 year old saw them and so they’ve been completing them instead. Gets them off the screens for a little while.

My son loves these activity books and will happily sit and do them for a quiet half hour wind down time. He enjoys following the story whilst completing the puzzles.