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Where's Waldo?
Where's Waldo? The Coloring Collection
Love Waldo? Crazy about coloring? Pull out your pencils or markers and get ready to bring this adventurer's world to vivid life. Dozens of scenes from Waldo's books are enlarged enough to make the coloring a pleasure, with activity pages sprinkled throughout. Boasting flaps, an elastic closure, and a totally tote-able compact trim, here is one coloring collection kids will be eager to take with them on the road.
80 pages, Paperback
Published May 16, 2017
About the author
Martin Handford
473 books109 followersMartin Handford, the man behind the mind-boggling Waldo books, began his career as a freelance illustrator specializing in drawing crowd scenes. The turning point came when he was asked to create a book showcasing his impressive talent, and the character Waldo was born—originally to provide a link between each scene. "I can't tell you how pleased I am that Waldo has taken on a life of his own," Martin Handford says. "I'd like to inspire children to open their minds to explore subjects more, to be aware of what's going on around them. I'd like them to see wonder in places that may not have occurred to them." Martin Handford lives in England.
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April 17, 2018
(I have the Where's Wally version of this book)
I’ve always loved Where’s Wally? and this colouring book is a great special celebration of 30 years of Where’s Wally. Around A5 in size the book has semi-hardback covers and a handy material elastic strap that helps keep the book from getting scruffy while it’s used on your travels. Inside the pages are crisp white and nice and thick. They are printed double sided but quite thick so colouring with pens might work (I use pencils in this so I can’t comment on the use of pens).
Almost all the pictures are double page spreads and contain sections of Where’s Wally scenes. The entire scene isn’t displayed in this book, it would be too small and fiddly to colour in if it were but it’s amazing how much colouring there is to do in this book. Each page also comes with a piece of the page already coloured in, this includes a border or maybe one or two characters coloured in. It’s hardly anything but is supposed to give you a head start into colouring.
Some of the pages in this book contain small blank sections, such as some photos or parts of book covers. these are blank so you can fill them in yourself which is a fun little extra.
Colouring in as I said I use pencils but I will say that although you can open the spine of this book to lie it almost entirely flat, the area of the images that do go into the spine is a little tricky to colour. It’s not that big a deal, but if you like to colour right down into the spine it is a bit tricky and some of the characters that sit right in the centre of the image might not get coloured in that easily. It’s not very noticeable when you look at a coloured in image though.
What’s fun about this book is that there’s still so much to find within each page. Apart from Wally and his friends there’s little objects that are still visible in each scene and it’s extra fun when colouring in each picture as you really get to see all the little bits of a scene that you might miss when looking at a regular Where’s Wally book.
Inside the back cover there is a folded paper, a little smaller than A5 when folded which unfolds to reveal a dinosaur scene. This poster is 16 times its size to when it’s folded! It’s so much extra colouring and can then be hung on your wall!
I really do love colouring books, I already have several Where’s Wally colouring and activity books and this one is another great addition. Not only is it fun to colour in but there’s so much to find you’ll be having fun for hours, even after colouring in the pictures, finding all the things there are to find. I’d recommend this to anyone of any age, whether a Where’s Wally fan or not. There’s a lot of colouring to do and even if you have all the books already, or a previous Where’s Wally colouring book, it’s always fun to add your own colours and make each image unique!
-Thanks to Walker Books for a free copy.
I’ve always loved Where’s Wally? and this colouring book is a great special celebration of 30 years of Where’s Wally. Around A5 in size the book has semi-hardback covers and a handy material elastic strap that helps keep the book from getting scruffy while it’s used on your travels. Inside the pages are crisp white and nice and thick. They are printed double sided but quite thick so colouring with pens might work (I use pencils in this so I can’t comment on the use of pens).
Almost all the pictures are double page spreads and contain sections of Where’s Wally scenes. The entire scene isn’t displayed in this book, it would be too small and fiddly to colour in if it were but it’s amazing how much colouring there is to do in this book. Each page also comes with a piece of the page already coloured in, this includes a border or maybe one or two characters coloured in. It’s hardly anything but is supposed to give you a head start into colouring.
Some of the pages in this book contain small blank sections, such as some photos or parts of book covers. these are blank so you can fill them in yourself which is a fun little extra.
Colouring in as I said I use pencils but I will say that although you can open the spine of this book to lie it almost entirely flat, the area of the images that do go into the spine is a little tricky to colour. It’s not that big a deal, but if you like to colour right down into the spine it is a bit tricky and some of the characters that sit right in the centre of the image might not get coloured in that easily. It’s not very noticeable when you look at a coloured in image though.
What’s fun about this book is that there’s still so much to find within each page. Apart from Wally and his friends there’s little objects that are still visible in each scene and it’s extra fun when colouring in each picture as you really get to see all the little bits of a scene that you might miss when looking at a regular Where’s Wally book.
Inside the back cover there is a folded paper, a little smaller than A5 when folded which unfolds to reveal a dinosaur scene. This poster is 16 times its size to when it’s folded! It’s so much extra colouring and can then be hung on your wall!
I really do love colouring books, I already have several Where’s Wally colouring and activity books and this one is another great addition. Not only is it fun to colour in but there’s so much to find you’ll be having fun for hours, even after colouring in the pictures, finding all the things there are to find. I’d recommend this to anyone of any age, whether a Where’s Wally fan or not. There’s a lot of colouring to do and even if you have all the books already, or a previous Where’s Wally colouring book, it’s always fun to add your own colours and make each image unique!
-Thanks to Walker Books for a free copy.
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