Civilizations Seek-and-Find Maze Challenge

Civilizations Seek-and-Find Maze Challenge is part of the best-selling "Learn by Playing" maze picture book series by Japanese author and illustrator Gentaro Kagawa. The 12 highly detailed, beautifully illustrated, and visually accurate maze designs are filled with quizzes, riddles, and hidden objects to solve the quest. A key-to-the-gate-of-time-and-space must be found to enter each new civilization to arrive at the final destination of the Lost City of Atlantis. Each civilization along the way includes facts about its origins, riddles and quizzes and maze. Clues are offered to help solve each maze, as well as an answer key.

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.