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Customer Reviews:
Total reviews: 6
Average rating: 4.5 of 5
The HARDEST Waldo book 5 out of 5 stars.
5 of 5 people found this review helpful.
If you have never seen a Waldo book before, here's a short overview:
"Where's Waldo" series consists of unique colorful picture books where the illustrations are filled with hundreds of tiny characters doing all kinds of funny things. Your goal as a reader is to find Waldo, a guy in red and white shirt on all those pictures. If finding Waldo gets too easy then you can try to find his companions, his friend Wendy, Wizard Whitebeard, bad guy Odlaw, and dog Woof. And after that you can spend countless hours finding miscellaneous special items unique to each picture.
Mentally, this activity is similar to assembling a 5000 piece jigsaw puzzle, only it's more fun.Each book follows a theme, this particular one is set in Hollywood, and every picture is a movie set. There's a black and white silent movie, some history movies, a musical, a fantasy, a western, and others.
One great thing about Waldo books is that even small children can spot Waldo as well or even better than adults, it doesn't require any skills other than good eyesight and attention to details. This makes it fun to read together and compete with your kids of virtually all ages, not just 4-8 as the Amazon reading level suggests.
"Where's Waldo: In Hollywood" has some particularly hard extra puzzles, harder than any other Waldo book that I've seen. The ultimate problem is in the inside of the back cover: there's a list of 176 character faces, almost all of which appear somewhere among the thousands of figures throughout the book. But ten of them do not, and you have to find out which ten! I don't know anyone that has successfully found all of them yet. So I challenge you to find them! :)
Editorial Review:
In this adventure journey Wally is taken to the glittering sets of Tinseltown. The reader is invited to follow Wally through a cast of thousands, across the crowded sets of classic movies. He is to be searched for in the chorus line of that Busby Berkeley musical, up on the ramparts of a Foreign Legion epic, on the back of the Trojan Horse and in the middle of the swashbuckling exploits of Robin Hood and the Three Musketeers? Wally and Wenda, Woof, Wizard Whitebeard and Odlaw are harder than ever to find! Martin Handford was runner-up for the 1988 Mother Goose Award for his first book "Where's Wally? and has since illustrated "Where's Wally Now?" "Where's Wally? 3 The Fantastic Journey", "Where's Wally? The Ultimate Fun Book", 'Where's Wally? The Magnificent Poster Book", "Where's Wally? the Fabulous Flying Carpets Sticker book!" and "Where's Wally? The Dazzling Deep-sea Divers Sticker Book!".
