Play our Book Island Challenge!
Calling young adventurers! Guess which book characters live on each of the seven islands on the treasure map below.
7 islands, 7 book characters. Can you solve them all? Just click on each island and enter your answer in the box.
We’ll tell you if your guess is nearly correct, but remember we’re looking for the name of the character from a book, not the book’s title – and check your spelling!
Book Island Challenge is created by the team at National Book Tokens for junior bookworms. National Book Tokens have been encouraging a lifelong love of reading since 1932. Accepted in thousands of bookshops across the UK and Ireland, National Book Tokens gift cards are the perfect way to reward and inspire book-loving children.
Book Island Challenge is illustrated by Sofia Hericson, who loves to draw donuts. Sofia enjoys reading fantasy and sci-fi books that take her to another world.
Congratulations – you’ve found our bonus clue! Solve the riddle below and we’ll pick one bookworm to win a bundle of books and a Books Are My Bag tote every week until Christmas.
I've a forest within but no trees to be spied;
Travellers are welcome, no passports required.
I can offer the past or the future, you choose -
Find your teacher or mentor, your prophet or muse.
I have many volumes yet often I'm hushed,
My stillness a refuge - in me you can trust.
In me you'll meet heroes, adventurers, spies,
Lovers and lawyers and gods - what am I?
Can you spot the book titles? Just click on each clue and enter your answer in the box.
Save your progress as you go.
(Are you finding the clues too tricky? Just click ‘show answer’ and all will be revealed!)
Once you’ve guessed all seven clues correctly, you’ll be able to enter to win one of fifty £10/€10 National Book Tokens to continue your book adventure in bookshops across the UK and Ireland.
10 children will also win a bundle of 14 fantastic books from publisher Knights Of, who work hard to make sure that every child sees themselves in the books they make, including books by brilliant authors such as Jason Reyolds, Elle McNicoll, Sharna Jackson, and many more!