SOLVED. Children's Picture book. Mazes, "search and find" puzzles, and a Dragon. Each maze featured a moment in Ancient History. Dead-end of a maze connected to different parts of the maze, like teleporting. Read around 2003. [s]

[Nathan]

There's a book I used to borrow from my school library as a kid (so, published in or before 2003). It was a picture book that was a cross between a maze-book and a "search and find" (ala Where's Waldo, etc). The mazes operated on getting to a dead-end, but at the dead-end, there'd be windows to different parts of the maze that were present elsewhere in the same two-page spread illustration. Finding them acted like a 'teleport' to their corresponding parts in the bigger picture.

I recall the book having a slight 'plot' element that involved a red? dragon, perhaps issuing the maze challenge to the reader. I think each maze had their own focus on moments within ancient history (terra cotta army, pompei, maybe?).

This all sounds very specific, but I cannot find it for the life of me. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[Kris]

Nathan, I added some details to the header/ topic title. Feel free to edit it. (Sounds like a book I would have loved as a kid.)

Are they visual mazes you can complete with a pencil - or more like "choose an adventure/ path" stories?

About how many pages in the book?

[Kris]

The Maze and the Magic Dragon by Linda Lowery turned up while searching, but it looks too long.

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Keyword: mazes dragon | 1970-2006 | Juvenile | Fiction | Book | English
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[Kris]

Great Double Maze Book by Juliet Snape?

"... double mazes that take readers to ancient Rome, the Wild West, a medieval castle, a pirate's cove, and China's Great Wall."

Here are some images of the mazes on eBay.com:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/194386306930...

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[Nathan]

hi Kris, these are great leads! I don't think these are the right ones, but definitely on the right track.

page count was probably 20 to 30 pages at the very most-- they were visual mazes, just slightly more 'mechanically' complex than a simple maze.

[Simi]

The Castle of Fear by Patrick Burston?

[Kris]

Link for Simi's suggestion - The Castle of Fear by Patrick Burston

[Simi]

Another suggestion based on a similar thread that was solved. Into the Underworld

[Nathan]

@simi

that was it! I solved this a bit ago, but forgot to update the thread.

[Kris]

Great! Glad you found your book, Nathan. Thanks for the update.