Customer Reviews

Where's Waldo? In Hollywood (Waldo)

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If you have never seen a Waldo book before, here's a short overview:
"Where's Waldo" series consists of unique colorful picture books where the illustrations are filled with hundreds of tiny characters doing all kinds of funny things. Your goal as a reader is to find Waldo, a guy in red and white shirt on all those pictures. If finding Waldo gets too easy then you can try to find his companions, his friend Wendy, Wizard Whitebeard, bad guy Odlaw, and dog Woof. And after that you can spend countless hours finding miscellaneous special items unique to each picture.
Mentally, this activity is similar to assembling a 5000 piece jigsaw puzzle, only it's more fun.

Each book follows a theme, this particular one is set in Hollywood, and every picture is a movie set. There's a black and white silent movie, some history movies, a musical, a fantasy, a western, and others.

One great thing about Waldo books is that even small children can spot Waldo as well or even better than adults, it doesn't require any skills other than good eyesight and attention to details. This makes it fun to read together and compete with your kids of virtually all ages, not just 4-8 as the Amazon reading level suggests.

"Where's Waldo: In Hollywood" has some particularly hard extra puzzles, harder than any other Waldo book that I've seen. The ultimate problem is in the inside of the back cover: there's a list of 176 character faces, almost all of which appear somewhere among the thousands of figures throughout the book. But ten of them do not, and you have to find out which ten! I don't know anyone that has successfully found all of them yet. So I challenge you to find them! :)

My son just turned 5 and received this book as a birthday present. He sits for _hours_ looking at it. He is a very physically active child and very few things hold his attention very long, but this does

This is a great book for whiling hours away-regardless of how old you are. Remember the old Laurel And Hardy short with the jigsaw puzzle with the missing piece??? That's what looking at one of these books is like!!! You will NOT put the book down untill you find a certain character-and then curse yourself for not noticing where he/she was sooner. Definitely top class entertainment!!

Well, there's a weird title for a review, but if you think about it this can really train a child to pay attention to detail, which is a habit helpful in many professions. So, maybe all that staring at these big busy pictures isn't a waste of time.

This is a big big book. We checked out the original version from the library and my three year old fell in love with it so we had to have our own copy.

My 9 year old son loves the Waldo books. He loves this one the most because it is small and comes with a cool magnifying lens to look at the images.

Quick delivery. Good condition as described. Fun book with classic Hollywood scenes. The black and white waldo is tricky. Second edition is nice with new Waldo location from the first edition when I was growing up.

This was a Soft Covered book. I re-ordered it in the HARD COVER, you ordered through
apex_books. Was to get it before December 25,2010. I paid $14.39. NEVER GOT IT AND
AND I AM OUT MY MONEY. WON'T GIVE ANY REVIEWS

Great little book. Got to us on time. I didn't mind that it was paperback because my son is 6 and he is gentle with his stuff.

this is such a fun activity for my two year old! we can sit for hours and go through the book and look for waldo together. we made up riddles and rhymes for finding waldo and celebrate when we find him. fun stuff!

I very much enjoyed this edition of "Where's Waldo." The pictures are extremely pleasing and innovative. I particularly enjoyed the last page. What is on the last page? You have to buy it to find out. ::wink::