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Where's Wally?
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First edition
Author Martin Handford
Illustrator Martin Handford
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Subject Where's Wally?
Publisher UK: Walker Books; US: first Little Brown, then Candlewick Press
Publication date
18 September 1987
Media type Print (Hardback)
Pages 26
ISBN 0-316-34293-9
OCLC 15109312
LC Class PZ7.H1918 Wh 1987

Where's Wally?, published in the United States and Canada as Where's Waldo?, is the title of the first book in the Where's Wally? series, published in 1987. In the book, Wally travels to everyday places, where he sends postcards to the reader (which are the pictures in the book), and the reader must locate Wally in the postcard. The book became an instant best-seller. Where's Wally? was re-released in October 1997 in a special 10th anniversary edition form. The location of Wally was changed in each picture and additional characters were added for the reader to find (Woof, Wizard Whitebeard, Wenda, Odlaw, the Wally Watchers, and others).

The Wally series is quite evocative of an earlier children's book titled Where's Wallace? (by Hilary Knight), in which a red-headed orangutan escapes from the zoo and "hides" in highly detailed picture panoramas, including beach, department store, circus, stadium, and museum.

Scenes

  1. In the Town
  2. On the Beach
  3. Ski Slopes
  4. Camp Site
  5. The Railway Station
  6. Air Port
  7. Sports Stadium
  8. Museum
  9. At the Sea
  10. Safari Park
  11. Department Store
  12. Fair Ground
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