We love everyone who helped make this truly special and indeed life-affirming experience happen. The official website for the books is really well done, too, and well worth a look."Dear friends- season 2 will mark the end of THE MYSTERIOUS BENEDICT SOCIETY's journey on Disney+. Its sequel, which my kids, my wife, and I are now dying to read, is The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Perilous Journey, and is available in hardcover for a list price of $16.99. The Mysterious Benedict Society, by Trenton Lee Stewart, is available in paperback for a list price of $6.99. A lot of the puzzle and mystery resolutions are predictable by adults, but much less so by kids, and the characters and plot are captivating enough that you'll barely notice, anyway. Pedalian (who, ironically, stumbles over every long word he uses). He has a near-Dickensian gift for characters' names, with (among others) a villain named Ledroptha Curtain and a comic secondary character named S.Q. This book will join the His Dark Materials and Harry Potter books on the shelves of our house in the section of books written for kids that my wife and I would gladly read by ourselves. The author, Trenton Lee Stewart, has a great gift for storytelling. If this sounds quirky, it is, but there's a great deal more detail involved that I don't wish to reveal for fear of ruining some of the great surprises the book has in store. He has a mission for them with the ultimate goal of doing no less than saving the world, from a mind control scheme so devious that only a team of very gifted children (each gifted in his/her own way) can possibly hope to conquer it. They are all parentless-three are orphans, and one is a runaway-and they are brought together through a series of tests by a man named Mr. The Mysterious Benedict Society introduces us to four amazing kids, who will later form the title group: Reynie Muldoon, George "Sticky" Washington, Kate Wetherall, and Constance Contraire. Don't think the puzzles are all the book has to offer, though: It has great characters, a solid plot, and a great deal of humor mixed into a serious story. My nearly-eight-year-old son, who loves puzzles nearly as much as I do, was captivated by this aspect of the book, though my six-year-old daughter less so.
The book is chockablock with puzzles of all sorts, which are woven into the story in such a way that the reader/listener is challenged to solve them along with the protagonists. I'll admit I was a bit skeptical about The Mysterious Benedict Society's ability to hold my kids' interest, since it's a longer chapter book than any my wife and I had read with the kids before, and it has next to no illustrations (merely one small one at the beginning of each chapter). It is a rare kids' book that is popular despite being over 400 pages long and written by someone other than J.K.
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