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Sherlock Holmes is on the case in this action-packed early-reading adventure!
About the author
Valerie Tripp (Yale ’73; Harvard GSE ’82) is the award-winning author of American Girl books about Felicity, Josefina, Samantha, Kit, Molly, and Maryellen as well as the Welliewisher and Hopscotch Hill School series. Currently, Tripp is writing a STEM series for National Geographic Kids. She is has adapted classics for Starry Forest Publishers, and has written numerous leveled readers, songs, stories, skills book pages, poems, and plays for educational publishers.Carlo Molinari was born in Santeramo, Italy, where he grew up and now lives. All his life, he's had a passion for comics, especially those drawn realistically in a personal style. He began his education at the Liceo Artistico and went on to study painting at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Bari. In his spare time, he dances Argentine Tango. If he weren’t an artist, he would be a handyman, actor, or dancer—a character from a Moebius or Micheluzzi comic strip. He likes to listen to jazz, rock, and classical music while he works and taught himself English purely by using computer software.
Summary
Crack the case with Sherlock Holmes in three familiar tales, now written with young readers in mind: “The Red-Headed League,” “The Speckled Band,” and “The Hound of the Baskervilles.”
It’s always an adventure with the world’s smartest detective and his trusty partner, Dr. John Watson! With mysteries galore, the daring duo can solve anything when they put their minds to it.
Follow Sherlock and Watson as they track down clues and uncover the answers to strange events: a tricky business scheme; a crime in a locked room; and the appearance of an eerie, supernatural legend. Wherever the two go, the truth is sure to follow.
With foil on the cover and evocative full-color art from Carlo Molinari, this adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s iconic Sherlock Holmes promises to be an exciting first chapter book.
From Starry Forest Books, Classic Adventures brings action-packed adaptations of favorite classics to early readers.
