NOMINATED FOR A RINGO AWARD IN BEST SINGLE ISSUE AND BEST PRESENTATION IN DESIGN CATEGORIES, WHILE AUTHOR JOE TODD-STANTON HAS BEEN NOMINATED FOR BEST COVER ARTIST AND BEST COLORIST

When Marcy's adventurer father, Arthur, disappears in Egypt, she reluctantly sets off in his footsteps. She soon finds herself standing before the great Sphinx and must answer its riddle before she can enter and find Arthur, who is trapped inside. Her only option is to ask the Egyptian gods for help, but in the end it is up to Marcy to complete the final task. Can she overcome her deepest fears and save her father?Join Marcy as she decodes hieroglyphs solves puzzles and learns about the ancient gods of Egypt in this thrilling second book in the Brownstone’s Mythical Collection series. An adventure filled with ancient Egyptian gods and legends, Marcy is a clever girl whose love for her dad leads her to daring acts of bravery.

This book is fictional. It is an historical adventure. The book is all about a little girl called Marcy whose father, Arthur, is an adventurer. Her father goes on a journey to a desert to get a book all about the secrets in the world. He gets trapped by a snake and Marcy helps to free him. They have lots of adventures. It’s a really good story and I would recommend it.I am so very glad this is a series! Marcy and the Riddle of the Sphinx is the very definition of charming. I love that the story follows directly behind the previous rather than jumping through other ancestors first (it's cute to see Arthur as a dad!). The art is, of course, stunning! You can really tell that Todd-Stanton was a kid fond of the maps & cutaways that featured in books like Eloise (hard same, my dude, hard same). These addition, to me at least (with my big old 90's nostalgia glasses) give the story an old-school adventure feel in the best way. I can unequivocally say that small child Darcy would have loved this book with both hands (& large child Darcy does too). Our scheme of work contains 30 x 1 hour lesson plans which include differentiated activities for your class. We have progressive grammar lessons on conjunctions, adverbs, commands, commas, figurative language, expanded noun phrases and direct speech. Each grammar focus paves the pathway to three extended pieces of writing: instructional writing, a quest narrative and a play script. Also included within this English scheme of work are WAGOLL texts, bespoke teaching videos and our engaging hand-drawn images all meticulously linked to ‘Marcy and the Riddle of the Sphinx’.