This book was amazing! It was my favorite stroy when I was little and still is. All the beautiful and rich pictures helps bring the story to life. It's full of riddles that never end. The Masquerade was well written and keeps the reader coming back to solve the mystory of were the hare lost the moons gift to the sun.

I have searched for this book, like some have searched for the jewel!

WOW. To finally find it. I was given a hard back copy of this book from my father in the mid 80's, probably the 87' printing.

What is this book about?, is it the book you've been searching for? This is the book "Masqureade" by Kit Williams. The book is now out of print, and the treasure has been found (and lost) so to speak since it's debut in the early 80's. Kit made this book to become like a world wide treasure hunt. The rabbit in the story is sent off with a beautiful necklace. A gift from the Moon to the Sun. The Moon has fallen in love with the Sun. But along the way the necklace gets lost. You are supposed to look for clues in the pages, in the riddles and find the hidden pictures to solve the riddle. If you were the first person to find all the clues and send Kit a letter with the details (all the answers being correct) you could go and get this necklace for yourself. You could own it. It was valued at [$$$] at the time the book was released. A year later the riddle was solved and yes the necklace was found. Although the story has a sad ending, apparently the people who found the necklace cheated.[...]There was also a later paperback printing of this book WITH the answers in the book. Since the jewel had already been found.

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To find the places described in the book around the city ,let me think of the treasure map the vikins leaved behind them.

you can do it all with this detective kit...

it has cool detective gear and a guide for how to be a super detective!

Stick with the motto that everyone follows {even the author}:

Buy it!

It is very handy book for those who want to be detectives!!Comes with allot of coool stuff.Stick with it - buy it!!!!

If you are a fan of the olsens, you will LOVE this kit! it comes with lots of stuff! I also reccommend the Walt Disney World adventure book.

After experimenting with 3 flavors of Linux, I found a home. I couldn't have done it without this book, and now SUSE is for me. I particularly liked the chapter on the navigation commands. So long Bill!

I am not a Linux user but a simple windows user. I red the book of Bill Ball, SuSE and now I finally get IT!! I know how Linux works. I like the way he writes. My native language isn't English but I can understand it! Thanks to the writher!!! I din't like Windows, and want to use something differend than windows, finally I found it!! Many thanks to the writher and thanks for inc. the CD-ROM

I like this book!! It's really help you out to learn Linus in 24 hours!!!

Wisconsin is lucky to have Zane Williams so he can capture our lovely state. Another book that captures Wisconsin's beauty is The Spirit of Door County with photographs by Darryl Beers. Darryl is to Door what Zane is to Wisconsin!!! Thanks to both of you!!!

Please note that the author of this book is Tracy Will, not Charles Calhoun, and that the photgrapher is Zane Williams

This is a GREAT kit for girls of all ages! You can make creative and sparkly cards for anything! Also, people LOVE receiving sparkle cards. The kit includes colored paper, envelopes, a sparkle ribbon, glitter, rhinestones, and vellum. You can make everything from a birthday "wheel of fortune" (I made that one for my friend on her birthday and she loved it) to a pocketful of posies to even a sparkle purse! So go ahead and order your Sparkle Card Kit today! You'll be making cards like a pro in no time.

This book is great! If you need to make thank you notes, invitations, or any kind of letters, this is perfect. You get to make your own style of cards. I loved making my thank you notes all sparklly and creative. This is a great activity for any age of girls. I loved it!!!

This is for me, the definitive resource for anyone looking for clear and concise explanations on the new role for management.

I love this book. It is a collection of letters primarily from Tennessee Williams to Maria St. Just. Maria and Tenn (as he is known to close friends) have a long-standing friendship and close connection. Only a few letters of Maria to Tennessee survive but Tennessee's letters reveal an intimate portrait of Tennessee's world, family, loves and life.

I felt I was a part of this wonderful world of Tenn in Florida, Tenn and his mother & sister, Tenn in Italy and London, Tenn and his companion, Frank ("the Horse") and all that makes up Tennessee's talented world.

Maria St. Just has provided her insights and notes about the letters.

I wish this book was still in print! I would love a copy for my personal delectation and collection -- for the letters are DELICIOUS.

There are plenty of genealogy method books for novices out there, some quite good and some decidedly mediocre, but Dollarhide proves once again that it's possible to present most of the how-to information necessary for getting started in only 48 pages, and at a very modest price. Beginning with a basic pedigree chart and the question "What do you know?" he leads the reader through a seven-step process of finding out the essentials of what you *don't* know, including family interviews, writing for death certificates and following up the leads they contain, burrowing into the federal census and the Family History Library, and then moving on to state and county records. At that point, the beginner should be well under weigh, with a lengthy list of research goals to pursue. The second part of the book introduces the wider arena of the National Archives, Social Security records, renting microfilms, and dealing with professional researchers. A state-by-state selected and annotated listing of "resource centers" provides a good basic checklist, as does a list of recommended reference books. A handful of blank master forms (on the Dollarhide model, naturally) are intended for photocopying. Surprisingly, though, except for a few Website addresses, the author takes no notice at all of "computer genealogy" or the Internet, though the Net is the first point of contact for many would-be genealogists these days. Still, this would be a good textbook for a Beginning Genealogy class.

In 1979, British artist Kit Williams published a children's book with a great hook--if you solve the puzzle inside, you could find a buried treasure. The book sold in droves on both sides of the Atlantic, and treasure hunters flocked to England. Eventually, someone discovered the treasure without solving the main puzzle. Williams later published this version, which reproduces the original book, but also explains the answer to the main puzzle. But without a treasure to find, interest in the original book declined and it is now out of print.

Which is too bad, because Williams' lush paintings deserve to be seen in a large hardcover version, not the tiny paperback available now. Not only are the illustrations beautiful to look at, but they are filled with details that invite the eye to search for clues. The text is also filled with riddles that are fun to solve too. This is a book you'll want to read again and again, even if you can't solve the main riddle.

One last point--the recent book "The Merlin Mystery" tries to duplicate Masquerade's feat, but the illustrator is no Kit Williams. If you want to read other puzzle books like "Masquerade", I recommend "The Egyptian Jukebox" by Nick Bartcock and "The Eleventh Hour" by Graeme Base. Neither of these books, I should warn, hide any treasure however.

Although I have only recently read Masquerade, it comes to mind that there was *another* book by Kit Williams; and the prize was a golden bee. My copy has taken it's leave of my bookshelf, and I would dearly love to obtain another!

I bought "Masquerade" almost twenty years ago. I didn't know until now, that the jewel was found. I truly enjoyed reading, feeling and touching this book. I still hold my copy dear to me. If anyone can find the original book, they should try and solve it. What a gifted artist Mr. Kit Williams is. The pictures are so unique, I have never seen any other art work like it.

Any animator looking for a book to help them improve their craft knows that most books on animation usually fall short in so many ways, it's easy to think it's impossible to write a comprehensive and accurate book on the subject (don't even get me started about the abysmal state of computer character animation books). Williams is the penultimate animator's animator and he tells it like it is. Williams systematically demystifies virtually every aspect of animation from simple walk cycles, to breaking joints to dialogue and acting. Along the way, he corrects or eliminates information that is inaccurate or practices that distract (lose the headphones and the rad tunes when you work and watch your quality and quantity improve). Williams also is a great storyteller and writer. His accounts with Milt Kahl, Art Babbit and Ken Harris are gems, giving real insight into the personalities of these ingenious men. Since so much of the book is gleaned from his tutaluge under the now-gone "greats" of animation, any price for this tome is a steal. His gift to the world is this book.

If you want learn to REALLY animate characters with life and believability, get this book.

Richard Williams is a man who is largely responsible for the revival of the art of animation in the early 1970s. Williams had Disney animator Art Babbitt and Warner great Ken Harris working in his studio in London and training a new generation of animators in the techniques of good character animation, which was not taught at the time in any school or considered an art form.

Williams' long awaited book on animation technique is the logical successor to Preston Blair's CARTOON ANIMATION and it successfully updates some of the weaknesses of that book, particularly in handling dialogue animation. He covers a lot of the same ground that Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston did in their now out-of-print THE ILLUSION OF LIFE.

There is some history, but that's available in other books. What is unique about this book is that Williams writes how surprised he, an Academy Award winning animator with a successful professional studio, was to learn that he needed to learn just about everything over again from Harris and Babbitt. Fortunately for us he is now sharing these priceless lessons with the public.

The most important thing that an aspiring animator will get from this book is: that animation IS an art form, and good animation has nothing to do with whether it is done on computer or on paper. Williams exhorts his readers to 'draw whenever possible' and even though there is a computer modelled figure on the cover of the book, there is not a single piece of computer generated imagery in it. The book is about the bare bones, about creating life in art. Animation is the twentieth century's contribution to world art and deserves to be taken very seriously.

Buy this book.

I'm a graduate of a one year animation certificate program in classical animation. In many ways, this book covers a lot of the ground of Preson Blair's classic bible "Cartoon Animation", as well as Tony White's excellent "Animator's Handbook". However, it also deals with practical examples to extend the lessons from these initial books. The whole section on 'walks' has lessons on acting, character and animation that deal with all areas of acting in animation, not simply walk cycles.

It's also more practical than the Illusion of Life, in that it has a logical progression of lessons and enough custom illustrations to more precicely demonstrate these points. In many ways, It's the intermediate book between the intellectual aspects of the Illusion of Life, and the basic principals of Cartoon Animation.

For me, this was like a second year of school: I had learned all the concepts and basic principals I needed in that first year of school using Tony White and Preson Blair. Richard William's book expanded on those concepts, and has already started to improve my work in the first two months of receiving it. I highly recommend this book to any animation students out there, as well as graduates looking to increase their skills.