The Where's Wally? series has sold over 75 million copies worldwide. Start the search for Wally in this mini version of the original eye-boggling classic!
An easily portable mini-edition of the classic book that launched the global phenomenon, Where's Wally! With a handy magnifying lens, there's hours of fun to be had searching for Wally and his friends - and much more - in all the intricately detailed scenes as they travel all over the world.
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. Read more about the author here.
