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

Insect 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, 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, clues, and facts about the insects they will encounter in each new setting. To solve the quest and exit from the mysterious insect hole, the child must find the dogs by solving a series of different challenges. 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.