Quivori: Don’t Look Down

Cover of Quivori: Don’t Look Down, Book One, by Gary Alker.

Don’t Look Down is an illustrated adventure book for children aged 6–10, with a story you help decide. Your journey begins with a fall into a world of floating islands. Beside you is Mavzi, a small orange companion with two tiny wings. Choose your route, search the pictures for clues and discover where a different decision might lead.

Look inside

Meet Mavzi and discover your first choices in these selected sample pages from the book.

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Opening page of Quivori: Don’t Look Down, with the reader and Mavzi falling into a world of floating islands.
Your adventure begins
Mavzi introduces himself during the fall, followed by three choices for the reader in Don’t Look Down.
What would you choose?
An illustrated sample page from Don’t Look Down showing the reader catching Mavzi during their fall.
A friend in free fall

An illustrated adventure for ages 6–10

Written for readers aged 6+, this is a choose-your-path adventure. Read until a decision appears, choose your route and follow the directions. Your next page may take the story somewhere a different choice would never reveal.

Look closely, then choose

Hidden picture clues make the illustrations part of the adventure. Pause to look around before you move on. Reaching an ending need not mean finishing with the book: return to a choice and try another route to discover a different outcome.

A companion on uncertain paths

Friendship gives the journey warmth as well as wonder. With Mavzi alongside you, the unknown becomes somewhere to explore together. One uncertain choice need not define the whole adventure; there may be another path waiting to be discovered.

Where to go next

Don’t Turn Around, Book Two brings a tiny door, a worried courier and a new mystery. For a gentler read-aloud introduction to Mavzi, choose Mavzi and the Missing Star.

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