
For example, that's the Shortcut, the fastest ocean liner in the world, and the idea of the scavenger hunt and how that plays out.īut it did involve a lot of invention. I'd say there are certain things that are standouts when you read the books those are kind of our islands or our big moments, big feelings, big relationships that we just know are somehow essential to the feel of the thing. Phil Hay: I think that this year, we have the benefit of not only the books-a lot of the second season's plot comes from Perilous Journey-but we also have the way the characters developed in the first season. The new season lifts from the second book, but how do you decide what to adapt when you go on your own storytelling scavenger hunt? What comes out of your own imagination or breadcrumbs from your previous changes?

There they must work as a team to save not only themselves, but also the world outside the walls. They must go undercover at the Learning Institute for the Very Enlightened where the only rule is that there are no rules.

They have three things in common: they are all honest, all remarkably talented and all orphans. In the end, just four children succeed: Reynie, Kate, Sticky and Constance. When a peculiar advertisement appears in the newspaper for children to take part in a secret mission, children everywhere sit a series of mysterious tests. 'Like the Potter books, this story goes beyond mere adventure' BOOKLIST 'This book reminded me of some of the children’s books I grew up with, like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and The Phantom Tollbooth.' RICK RIORDAN, author of the PERCY JACKSON series

Book 1 in the New York Times bestselling series, now a TV show on Disney+!
