Friday 17 August 2018

ReadItDaddy's Second Picture Book of the Week - Week Ending 17th August 2018: "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: A Puzzle Adventure" by Aleksandra Artymowska (Big Picture Press)

Our second Picture Book of the Week is a truly stunning homage to an absolutely amazing novel...
It's not often we see classic novels getting a picture puzzle book treatment but "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: A Puzzle Adventure" by Aleksandra Artymowska is a real spectacle, and one of the most amazing maze books we've seen in a long time.

It takes its inspiration from Jules Verne's classic novel, and along with two intrepid little explorers you'll enter Captain Nemo's undersea world for a peerless puzzle adventure with a ton of style and the most incredible illustrations.

Each page spread is hyper-detailed, and takes its cues from the original story of Captain Nemo and his quest to rid the world's oceans of those who would plunder them for their own gain.

Thankfully this book doesn't take too serious a tone, but you will need all your skill to solve some of the mazes on offer in here.

Inside Nemo's amazing submarine. Safe from the giant squid!
There are moments of excitement as your amazing undersea craft is attacked by a giant squid! Eeeep! Can you escape in time?

Navigating the frozen ice pack. Watch out for igloos!
Each amazing scene is fiendishly devised, and truly gorgeously illustrated. This is one heck of a beautiful book, just look!

Probably one of our favourite spreads, incredible shells of all shapes, sizes and colours
It's an awesome idea, and Aleksandra is an incredible talent who deserves every success with this. She's definitely someone to keep a close eye on in future, her work is amazing!

C's best maze: The shell maze.

Daddy's favourite maze: I love all the crazy internal stuff on Nemo's submarine, The Nautilus. Such a great idea for a book, would love to see more classics get this treatment!

"20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: A Puzzle Adventure" by Aleksandra Artymowska is out now, published by Big Picture Press (kindly supplied for review).