Where's Waldo? The Incredible Paper Chase by Martin Handford is the seventh book in the Where's Waldo? series. It was first published in 2009 and recycles many scenes and features from the long out-of-print The Ultimate Fun Book! that was published in 1990.
The book follows Waldo and friends through ten scenes, each containing a lost piece of paper from Waldo's notepad.
Similar to The Great Picture Hunt before it, the book departs from the standard format set by the first five Where's Waldo? books by including only six two-page spreads and two single-page scenes. The book is fleshed out with additional activity book features, including the "Muddy Swampy Jungle Game" with press-out counters and tongue-twisting forfeit cards, plus a press-out circus scene.
"The Jurassic Games" is the only new scene produced specifically for this book; the remaining content collects and repurposes artwork originally produced for 1990's The Ultimate Fun Book! and 1991's The Magnificent Poster Book.
Scenes[]
- The Castle Siege
- The Jurassic Games
- Picture This
- The Great Retreat
- Muddy Swampy Jungle Game
- What a Dog Fight!
- The Beat of the Drums
- The Great Escape
- The Enormous Party
- The Wacky Waldo Circus
Appearances[]
Characters[]
Objects[]
- Odlaw's Binoculars, Wizard Whitebeard's Scroll, Wenda's Camera, Woof's Bone, Waldo's Key, Piece of Paper
Later editions and re-releases[]
Cover gallery[]
(ISBN: 076364689X)
(ISBN: 1536215104)
Notes[]
- “The Castle Siege” first appeared in The Magnificent Poster Book and was later reprinted in Fighting Knights: a Where's Waldo Fun Fact Book.
- "The Jurassic Games" is the only new scene made for this book.
- “Picture This” originally appeared in The Magnificent Poster Book as "The Old Friends"
- “The Great Retreat” originally appeared in The Ultimate Fun Book, but it was black and white. It has been colorized for this edition.
- “Muddy Swampy Jungle Game” originally appeared in The Ultimate Fun Book with the same name
- “What a Dog Fight!” originally appeared in The Ultimate Fun Book as “Ding-Dong! What a Dog Fight!”
- “The Beat of the Drums” originally appeared in The Ultimate Fun Book with the same name. The original had middle eastern men carrying spears, wearing turbans and marching in a parade. They have all been replaced with European people in colonial attire.
- “The Great Escape” originally appeared in The Ultimate Fun Book as “O, What a Lovely Maze”
- “The Enormous Party” originally appeared in The Ultimate Fun Book as “A Message From a Megastar”
- "The Wacky Waldo Circus" originally appeared in The Ultimate Fun Book as “The Wild and Wacky Waldo-Fun-Show”