Martin Handford - Where's Waldo?: The Ultimate Fun Book

Pros: hours of fun! Just like 'Hidden Pictures'

Cons: you might strain your eyes!

Review: I don’t know about you but I absolutely loved the ‘Hidden Pictures’ page in Highlights magazine when I was a kid. Nothing beat finding an unmarked page at the doctor’s office waiting room and being able to look for them all yourself!

Well, I...

Pros: Hours of fun, Very entertaining

Cons: Too few different Waldo titles

Review: My son absolutely loved the Waldo books when he was young and now my five year old daughter loves them. She will sit and look for Waldo over and over. The pages are very colorful, full of different little scenes that are quite funny. The book is fairly...

Pros: Fun, interesting (albeit mindless) way to pass a few or many minutes.

Cons: You will grow frustrated when you can not find Waldo or the other characters.

The Bottom Line: My library copy of Where's Waldo? has obviously experienced some 'hard' and regular use. I think that speaks loudly to the fact that past readers have indeed enjoyed Where's Waldo.

Review: .. In the 1980s a new phrase flashed into the American lexicon: 'Where's Waldo?'. Often used when an idea or a fact was somewhat obscure, either intentionally or accidentally, 'Where's Waldo?' came to represent something that could not be ...