THE QUEST FOR Z

In the style of his New York Times best-illustrated book Tricky Vic, Greg Pizzoli's Z is an unusual and irreverent twist on a picture book biography - think Indiana Jones for eight year olds.

In 1925, British explorer Percy Fawcett set out into the Amazon jungle in search of a lost city that he called "Z." A few weeks later, he disappeared. He was never heard from again. This boldly-illustrated picture book biography takes readers through Fawcett's life: his daring escapades throughout Latin America, his crazed obsession with making his mark as a world-famous explorer. And it shows his legacy, the 100+ people who have died in their own quests to find out why he disappeared. It leaves just one question: what did happen to Percy Fawcett?

Greg Pizzoli is an author and illustrator of several picture books, including The Watermelon Seed, which received the Theodor Seuss Geisel Award. His first nonfiction picture book, Tricky Vic, was a New York Times Best Illustrated Book of the Year, an Amazon Best Book of the Year, a Kirkus Best Book of the Year, an American Library Association Notable Book, and received a Blue Ribbon from the Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books. Visit Greg online at www.gregpizzoli.com