Can you find your way through outer space? Let's find out! 12 highly detailed mazes with hidden pictures, each beautifully illustrated and visually accurate - Riddles and hidden objects to seek-and-find throughout each maze - Find a mysterious planet by collecting hidden objects throughout each maze - Roadblocks, clues, and keys create challenges, mystery, and an expanding adventure - Author Gentaro Kagawa is a Japanese artist who is known for his highly detailed maze books as well as his work as a historic illustrator Learn all about space through play with this amazing puzzle book! Curious Quest: Outer Space Seek-and-Find Maze Challenges is part of the wildly popular "Learn by Playing" maze picture book series by Japanese author and illustrator Gentaro Kagawa. Inside this activity book for kids ages 8 and up, 12 incredibly detailed, beautifully illustrated, and visually accurate maze designs are filled with quizzes, riddles, and hidden objects to solve the book's overall quest: Locating the distant planet of Eternia before returning home to Earth! A mysterious blue stone is found where a shooting star landed, and, when examined by scientists at the Space Center, a glowing pattern appears with a message from a distant planet. The journey to find the planet starts with blasting into space in a rocket ship named WHALE to visit different constellations, the International Space Station, solar systems, and planets, collecting magical stones along the way. Each space maze shares fun facts and quizzes about the location. When the last magic stone is found, so too is the distant planet of Eternia where you are welcomed and get to learn all about this mystery planet and its people before returning home to Earth. Clues are offered to help solve each maze, as well as an answer key in the back of the book in case kids get stuck. This unique and challenging puzzle book will keep kids learning and engaged for hours on road trips, rainy afternoons, after school, or any time! 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.