Where's Wally? (book)

Where's Wally?
First edition
AuthorMartin Handford
IllustratorMartin Handford
LanguageEnglish
SubjectWhere's Wally?
PublisherUK: Walker Books; US: first Little Brown, then Candlewick Press
Publication date
18 September 1987
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint (hardback)
Pages26
ISBN0-316-34293-9
OCLC15109312
LC ClassPZ7.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]

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.

  1. ^ Valdez, Nick (2021-07-12). "One Piece to Launch Crossover With Where's Waldo". Comic Book. Retrieved 2021-12-05.