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Language:	English
Publisher:	Candlewick Press

This author wrote a maze-based puzzle book.

Puzzle Books

Into the Under World

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Gillian Clements was one of those in-house writers who, for the most part, took on projects by commission and working in both the editorial and illustrative departments all the while. Her sole interactive work, "Into the Under World", is more of a puzzle-and-picture collection than a gamebook, per se, and said work's success is directly proportionate to the ambition - or lack thereof - of the book's intentions. From the selections of her catalogue that I've encountered over the years, her books are generally unremarkable but not necessarily bad in any regard... decidedly middle-of-the-road and lacking in personality apart from what the job calls for. Which... isn't necessarily a bad thing. It's just difficult to outright recommend any of her titles to readers outside of the concentrated target audience, nor is it easy to say whether said books are successful in informing and entertaining such targeted audiences.

--Shadeheart