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K-3
Inspired by Jules Verne's novel, a small, bespectacled boy takes a fantastic journey through forty spreads with eighty challenges, including mazes, difference spotting, and other calls for mental contortion. The generous trim size contains the multitudes of balloons, bicycles, etc., depicted in pen-and-ink with spare digital coloring, elegantly hiding solutions in plain sight. Answer keys are appended.