Quivori: Don’t Turn Around

Cover of Quivori: Don’t Turn Around, Book Two, by Gary Alker.

Don’t Turn Around is an interactive fantasy adventure for children aged 6–10. A tiny door arrives with Tib, a very worried courier, and something seems to be learning to copy you. Read the choices, study the illustrations and decide which route to follow. Small details can change what happens next, with different paths and endings to discover.

Look inside

Catch up with Mavzi, meet a pocket-sized visitor and discover a very unusual copycat in these selected sample pages.

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Opening scene from Don’t Turn Around, with Mavzi eating snacks before a tiny wooden door arrives.
One snack too many
A sample page from Don’t Turn Around showing Tib caught in the little door and two choices for the reader.
A pocket-sized visitor
A sample page from Don’t Turn Around in which Tib and the reader test a shadow that copies their movements.
Meet the slow copycat

Meet Tib

Tib carries an unusual delivery: a tiny wooden door. His worried expression is your first hint that this will be no ordinary journey. Meet Quivori’s worried courier before you step into the story.

Can you trust what you see?

Something copies a voice, a movement, a shadow—just a moment late. Follow the choices, study the illustrations and decide where your curiosity will lead. Different routes reveal different parts of the mystery, so a return visit can become a new adventure.

Read together, decide together

For a shared reading session, take turns choosing the route and explaining what you noticed. A different opinion can become part of the fun: listen to one another, follow one suggestion and come back later to try the other.

Do we need Book One?

You can arrive here as a new reader, or continue exploring after Don’t Look Down. Starting with Book One introduces the first adventure; Book Two offers another doorway into Quivori’s choices and hidden clues.

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