The first time I read this, I was confused by the ending. Then, I realized that I hadn't looked at the illustrations well. I thought this was a beautiful piece of storytelling about adventure and our connections to the past and future.

This is a most fabulous book by someone who is fast becoming one of my favorite picturebook creators. I wrote a defense paper asserting that this should have been a Caldecott book.

A story that requires the "reader" (here, viewer) to look carefully and even use a little map-reading and imagination. Lehman conveys a sense of place, the passage of time, building curiousity as the page turns. Love the mostly muted palette of blues, greens, yellows, tans, with accents of read. And the ending that is not quite an ending . . . leaving some other children on the path to explore.

I didn't love this quite as much as Barbara Lehman's other books, but maybe that's just because it made me work a little harder! This wordless book requires the reader to fill in the gaps of the plot and passage of time, after discovering old maps and postcards in a secret box under the floorboards. Good for narrative skills.

Inspired, creative are at least two words that spring to mind.

A great wordless picture book--but I'm still not sure that these kids aren't being abducted...it's slightly unsettling...

Powerful and wordless.

I love Lehman's wordless picture books and this one is no exception.

I really like the idea of this wordless picture book. A boy hides a box (the cover of which looks a great deal like the cover of the book) filled with trinket treasures and a map in the attic of what looks like a boarding school. Years later, the box is found by three kids who use the map to sneak out and go to Seahorse Pier. I was a little surprised to find kids from the past still playing at the pier, and then suddenly to see two more kids discovering the box, but I think it would inspire repeat readings by young ones.

Very charming wordless picture book.