 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. [1]
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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.
