What were these books?
Here’s what I remember.
Physical Appearance:
- Color but mostly washed out.
- Somewhere between 50 and 75 pages.
- Roughly 5/8” dimensions
- Kids wore horizontal-striped shirts. Knobby knees. I’m fairly sure that the girl had short afrow-ish hair that was blond. Both kids were white.
Content:
- One of the puzzles was related to finding a note by running a pencil horizontally over the page beneath the page where the note was originally written but has since been ripped off.
- I’m almost certain the book started off with the kids scuba diving and their uncle (or perhaps father) simply disappearing with a cryptic note that leads them on.
- It’s not a choose your own adventure sort of book. The book was entirely linear but expected you to solve the puzzle before turning the page.
- I believe they at one point reach a jungle.
Publishing:
- I’m fairly sure I was reading this in the mid to late 90s.
What was this book!?
