Where's Wally? The Search for the Lost Things
Binding: Paperback
Imprint: Walker Books
Wally and his friends invite you on an extraordinary journey to find their most precious possessions. Hours of mind-bending fun to return to again and again!
Help Wally find his misplaced key, Wenda find her camera, Woof locate his bone, Wizard Whitebeard look for his scroll and Odlaw hunt for his binoculars in five extraordinary adventures. This stupendous compendium is packed with hundreds of searches, plus spot-the-differences, mazes, dot-to-dots, word puzzles, doodles, matching games and much more. Sensational!
Creators
Martin Handford spent much of his childhood drawing and his earliest influences were cinema epics and playing with toy soldiers. At art college he continued to draw what he calls "busy and militarily correct battle scenes" which led to his job as a freelance illustrator specialising in drawing crowd scenes for numerous clients. Martin now gathers his inspiration from a huge variety of sources; films, visiting museums and art galleries, reading comics and books, and collecting ephemera and trivia. He is fascinated by crowds, and is attracted to their vibes, patterns and details – especially humour; "I love their movement and energy." Gradually, from all this meticulous research, the inspiration for a picture emerges, which Martin embellishes with his own ideas to create astonishing scenes. Each picture takes Martin months to draw. "As I work my way through a picture, I add Wally when I come to what I feel is a good place to hide him," he explains.
