Where's Waldo? The Wonder Book by Martin Handford is the fifth book in the Where's Waldo? series. It was released in 1997. In this adventure, Waldo travels through the pages of a magical book where the fantastical scenes come to life.
Scenes[]
- Once Upon a Page
- The Mighty Fruit Fight
- The Game of Games
- Toys! Toys! Toys!
- Bright Light and Night Frights
- The Cake Factory
- The Battle of the Bands
- The Odlaw Swamp
- Clown Town
- The Fantastic Flower Garden
- The Corridors of Time
- The Land of Woofs
Appearances[]
Characters[]
- Waldo, Woof, Wenda, Wizard Whitebeard, Odlaw, and the 11 travelers.
Objects[]
Later editions and re-releases[]
- See also: Changes in Where's Waldo? re-releases
1997 "Special Edition" cover
The book was originally published as a 12.5" × 10.1" hardback. Since then, it has been reissued in several formats and sizes.
The Wonder Book was released in 2014 along side the other original Where's Waldo? books in an updated "Deluxe Editions." This edition featured "new searches," updated artwork, and a collectable poster. Each page had fold out flaps to reveal additional checklists of things to spot in each scene; this also revealed what was behind the the book in the upper-left corner of each scene.
Notes[]
- In the first location, there are twelve giant books and most of them have people walking out of the pages. All five main characters have their own book in this location. They are "Waldo's Travels," "Woof's Book of Animal stories," "Wenda's Guide to Art," "Wizard Whitebeard's Book of Magic," and "The Great Book of Odlaw's Good Deeds" which is humorously the smallest book on the page.
- Similar to The Land of Waldos, this book features a land full of Odlaws (The Odlaw Swamp) and a land of Woofs (The Land of Woofs).
- The yellow and black striped animals from The Odlaw Swamp would later appear in "Odlaw's Picture Pandemonium" in The Great Picture Hunt.
- On the "Game of Games" scene, there is a crossword puzzle that has Waldo's aliases that are used in other countries.