As always, Base’s illustrations are appealing and elaborate. Discovering the correct pattern and reporting it to the author’s website will bring an unspecified reward. Sliding each of the three circles creates fish of varying patterns. Readers are invited to help by identifying the lost fish using a series of movable pages embedded in the back cover. Magically coming to life, the fish swims away, condemning them to spend the rest of their lives searching for it. Not surprisingly, given that they have described themselves as “poor and stupid thieves,” they manage to muff this opportunity when they accidentally allow the golden fish to make contact with water-the very thing they had been warned against. Caught stealing, they are offered the chance to avoid punishment by retrieving a jeweled fish for the Cat Pharaoh. Jackal and Ibis are two (amusingly) low-life characters in ancient Egypt. Detailed paintings accompanied by panels of hieroglyphics grace a slim plot and a perplexing puzzle.
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