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Gentaro Kagawa's Curious Quest: The Hidden World of Insects

Seek-and-Find Maze Challenges
Brief Description
Part of the best-selling Learn by Playing maze picture book series by Japanese author and illustrator Gentaro Kagawa, this book contains 12 highly detailed, beautifully illustrated, and visually accurate maze designs filled with quizzes, riddles, and hidden objects to solve the quest. While walking their dogs,... Read More
Format: Hardback
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Part of the best-selling "Learn by Playing" maze picture book series by Japanese author and illustrator Gentaro Kagawa with 12 highly detailed, beautifully illustrated, and visually accurate maze designs, filled with quizzes, riddles, and hidden objects to solve the quest. Clues are offered to help solve each maze, as well as an answer key.

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Part of the best-selling Learn by Playing maze picture book series by Japanese author and illustrator Gentaro Kagawa, this book contains 12 highly detailed, beautifully illustrated, and visually accurate maze designs filled with quizzes, riddles, and hidden objects to solve the quest.

While walking their dogs, a child happens upon a mysterious place with a secret door where insects are gathering. When a magic stone is pushed, the door opens, and a Samurai appears. Frightened, the dogs run into the hole followed by the child, and they shrink in size and enter a mystical world of insects.

Each maze provides a new challenge, with clues and facts about the insects they will encounter in each new setting. The goal is to solve each challenge throughout their travels to find the dogs and return to where they started. Clues are offered to help solve each maze, as well as an answer key.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781641244237

Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 26 August 2025

Country: United States

Imprint: Happy Fox Books

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Width: 216.0mm

Height: 279.0mm

Weight: 300g

Pages: 40

About the Author

Gentaro Kagawa, born in Matsuyama City, Ehime Prefecture, has loved mazes since childhood. His fascination with castle structures, resembling mazes, became a beloved hobby. He studied painting in high school, attended Musashino Art University, and completed graduate school in 1986. In 1989, he began illustrating castle restorations, later expanding to historical illustrations for magazines and textbooks. Inspired by his child's love for mazes, he published Maze of Time in 2005. Since then, 18 titles in the "Maze Picture Book Series" (PHP Institute) have sold over 3 million copies. Since 2017, he has co-authored with his daughter, Shiori Kagawa.

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