![]() ![]() BookĪlong with creating the book, Williams crafted a hare from 18 carat (75 %) gold and jewels, in the form of a large filigree pendant on a segmented chain. On arriving at the sun, Jack finds he has lost the treasure, and the reader is left to find its location. Masquerade featured 15 detailed paintings illustrating the story of Jack Hare, who seeks to carry a treasure from the Moon (depicted as a woman) to her love object, the Sun (a man). ![]() ![]() The book’s objective, the hunt for a valuable treasure, became his means to this end. It became the inspiration for a genre of books known today as armchair treasure hunts.Ĭhallenged by Tom Maschler, of the British publishing firm Jonathan Cape, to “do something no one has ever done before” with a children’s book, Williams set out in the 1970s to create a book of paintings that readers would study carefully rather than flip through and discard. ![]() Masquerade is a children’s book, written and illustrated by Kit Williams, which sparked a treasure hunt by concealing clues to the location of a jewelled golden hare, created and hidden somewhere in Britain by Williams. I think this is one of my favourite things EVER: ![]()
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