Monumental Mazes - Hardcover

Burnie, Richard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0375801553 ISBN 13: 9780375801556

Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers, 1999

Synopsis

Napoleon's freezing army is trying to retreat from Moscow!  A wobbly waiter needs to make his way over precarious pedestrian  walkways on a flooded piazza in Venice! A runaway must escape from the Roman arena, sneaking past the snoozing gladiators and avoiding the hungry lions! Find the right paths through these obstacles--and nine other uniquely challenging mazes--in this gorgeously illustrated and informative puzzle book. Set in eras as varied as ancient Egypt and modern-day Manhattan and on monuments from the Eiffel Tower to the Great Wall of China, these mazes take readers around the world, through different times and places. With quirky characters and activities galore on every page, there is much to keep an eagle-eyed reader engaged, even once (or if!) the mazes are solved. Solutions and historical information for each spread are included.

About this title

About the Author

Richard Burnie lives in France.

From Kirkus Reviews

Burnie taps the elegance of architectural cutaways and the stunning nature of enduring monuments to create 11 maze challenges. The pathway through a Manhattan skyscraper is a combination of girders and guard dogs; a warren of garden plots and rude gardeners try to thwart a traveler on China's Great Wall; and construction scaffolding around the Sphinx provides an escape route for a slave. Among the other venues are the Eiffel Tower, a Roman arena, a Moghul temple, Florence Nightingale's hospital, a flooded Venetian piazza, Christopher Columbus's Spanish port, and an icy river blocking Napoleon's retreat from Moscow. The handsome and arresting line drawings are delicately tinted and richly atmospheric, filling each two-page spread completely. One problem is the pinch of the book's binding interfering with the formal maze found in the Loire chateau; another is the difficulty in keeping track of the pathswhile some onlookers wouldn't dream of marking up so lovely a book, others will be tempted to make their journeys through the mazes permanent. Solutions are provided, as are brief descriptive passages of the locales. (Picture book. 7-11) -- Copyright ©1999, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

About this edition

• Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0375801553
• ISBN 13: 9780375801556
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Burnie Richard