The idea of finding hidden treasure on Oak Island, Nova Scotia is a widespread fantasy now, not only because of the reality television show, but because of the many books for both adults and children about this perhaps mythical place. It is held that Captain Kidd buried his treasure on the island sometime in the sixteen or seventeen hundreds, cursing and booby-trapping it, frustrating centuries of avid treasure hunters.

SL Boudreau has recently brought the story to a new generation of children with a picture book about the "Oak Island Treasure Kids," three local boys who meet in a treehouse flying a pirate flag. Armed with a map found in an old bottle, they bike across the causeway to the island to follow markers, foiled first by an inevitable booby trap, then finding a deep tunnel where, indeed, they find a locked and heavy chest. Manoeuvring it back to their treehouse where they hope to break into it, they speculate about its contents. These are intrepid and adventurous boys who will feature in a new series of picture books to capture the imagination of children. Book one is a page turner, enticing the child to wonder if they will find a treasure chest, how they will get it home, and if they will manage to open it, leading to the final question, what did they find inside? "You guess!" the author suggests. What an intriguing way to end a story, inviting dialogue, and if the child is lucky, an investigation into the fascinating story behind it--who may have buried treasure on Oak Island, when, and what has happened to other treasure hunters? Children will certainly want to read further books in the series, first to learn what the children have discovered in the chest they dragged home, and then to follow the boys on their hunts to come. The book is nicely illustrated by Yurii Speranskii, easily helping children picture what is happening in the story.