All that work translating them for nothing. Ps sorry to everyone who thought the answer was hidden somewhere in the Egyptian Hieroglyphics. The Jewel Fish of Karnak Shortlist year: 2012 Shortlist category: Children's literature Published by: Penguin Random House Far away in Ancient Egypt, Jackal and Ibis are brought before the Cat Pharaoh to be punished for stealing from the town market. The Cat Pharaoh’s reward is ours! Click on the links below for your copy. With the pattern of jewels revealed it’s an easy matter to work out which other treasures Jackal and Ibis took from the Crocodile Prince: the blue pyramid, the green scarab beetle and the purple vase.

There is another cameo of the Jewel Fish – the shape at the base of the tail is a round disc … Back to the underwater scene – and there it is: one of them has the same round disc. Once more help lies in an oft-overlooked artwork – the Front Cover. It is based on Graeme Base's 2011 children's book of the same name. This little piece of art does not show us the colour of the jewels – it seems no use at all – but look again – is that a tiny question mark at the base of the tail? Ah, ha! Turn back to the underwater scene – each fish has a different shape at the base of the tail. The Jewel Fish of Karnak ( Karunakku no Jueru Fisshu) is a Japanese fantasy adventure comedy animated film animated by Studio Ghibli.

One of them is surely the fish Jackal and Ibis need to find – but which? The answer lies in a small image right at the beginning of the book: the cameo of the Jewel Fish on the Title Page. The key image in solving the puzzle is the underwater scene towards the end of the book featuring countless fish, each with a different pattern of jewels.

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