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snarpI'm trying to find a book of mazes I had as a kid. Given that I'm pretty sure I got it at a Scholastic book fair, this was an oddly literate book of mazes: either the first one or the second was an alphabetical maze, with a bunch of objects starting with each letter of the alphabet scattered around, "Z" being "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance."
I recall a later one as requiring some sort of esoteric cultural knowledge to solve; like, there were hints that were quotes from books and movies with which very few ten-year-olds would have been familiar. And one of the mazes had busts of the Marx brothers drawn along the bottom, with a bust of Karl Marx stuck in with them. Karl Marx's presence was, according to a guide in the back of the book, a hint that you needed to take a left.
I swear that I didn't dream this. Maybe the artist is the one who dreamed it. I remember being so impressed by the art that I used tracing paper to solve the mazes, not wanting to use a pencil on the book.
I suspect that it may be by Rolf Heimann - I've got another maze book of his here, and the art style seems similar - but none of the covers and titles on Amazon look right. It was taller than it was long, with beige or yellow predominating on the cover.
Awesome Alphamaze definitely has the wrong cover, or I'd think it was that. (Though I guess it's possible that, if mine was a Scholastic edition, it had a different cover.) I also don't remember the alien-related frame story, and I think I would.
I recall a later one as requiring some sort of esoteric cultural knowledge to solve; like, there were hints that were quotes from books and movies with which very few ten-year-olds would have been familiar. And one of the mazes had busts of the Marx brothers drawn along the bottom, with a bust of Karl Marx stuck in with them. Karl Marx's presence was, according to a guide in the back of the book, a hint that you needed to take a left.
I swear that I didn't dream this. Maybe the artist is the one who dreamed it. I remember being so impressed by the art that I used tracing paper to solve the mazes, not wanting to use a pencil on the book.
I suspect that it may be by Rolf Heimann - I've got another maze book of his here, and the art style seems similar - but none of the covers and titles on Amazon look right. It was taller than it was long, with beige or yellow predominating on the cover.
Awesome Alphamaze definitely has the wrong cover, or I'd think it was that. (Though I guess it's possible that, if mine was a Scholastic edition, it had a different cover.) I also don't remember the alien-related frame story, and I think I would.
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Date: 2011-05-30 08:34 pm (UTC)