Where's Wally? The Totally Essential Travel Collection

By Martin Handford

The essential travel companion!

Just what you've been waiting for... All the wondrous Wally worlds in one! Seven sensational classic Where's Wally? books packed into a handy travel-size edition. Wherever you're going, however you're travelling join the spectacular search for Wally!

• Features all seven classic Where's Wally? titles plus a set of six postcards
• The Where's Wally? series has sold 50 million copies worldwide in over 30 languages.
• Wally has reached celebrity status! He has appeared in the primetime American TV shows Frasier, The Simpsons and Friends; on the 1000th anniversary cover of Rolling Stone magazine as a cultural icon of the last 40 years; and on Google Earth.

About the author

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." He is also constantly on the look out for puns and wordplay that can be used in his pictures. 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.

ISBN: 9781406333527
Walker Books
Australian RRP: $24.95
New Zealand RRP: $27.99