Gentaro Kagawa's Curious Quest: Outer Space

The Outer Space Seek-and-Find Challenge is part of the best-selling "Learn & Play" 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 and hidden objects in each maze. The challenge is to collect 10 magical stones throughout space to find a mysterious distant planet before returning home to earth. Each space maze shares fun facts about the location and quizzes. When the last magic stone is found, so too is the distant planet of Nayuta. 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.