Where's Wally? In Hollywood

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But there is something frightening about the books as well, something about the inherent malignity of crowds. Over the years I've been addicted to the usual sorts of things - chess, Tetris, sudoku, Twix bars - and in the early 90s I briefly became addicted to the Where's Wally?

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They're like the teeming CGI hordes in The Lord of the Rings, but the closer you look the more you see - little patterns, jokes, connections, sly references to previous pages or previous books. In the first book the scenes were familiar - on the beach, at the station, on the ski slope - but witty and energetic and beautifully executed. As winter draws in, and people look for low-cost fun things to do, a visit to the library is among the most economic things to do in Cambridgeshire.Martin Handford's series began as a graphic version of hide and seek but with the third book, The Fantastic Journey (1989), it turned into something almost more complicated than the human mind could bear.

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And Wally's role in the crowd is strange as well, always there, somewhere, peeking out with his calm smile, untouched, uninvolved, all-accepting. James Joyce reputedly said that he wanted people to spend their lives solving the puzzles of Finnegans Wake. Is someone who plays in a chamber orchestra more skilled than a person who plays in a philharmonic orchestra?

The individuals are lightly sketched, a couple of dots and a squiggle for a face, seen from a great distance.

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If I'm going to find Woof's bones, not to mention Wally in the land of the Wallies, I'll need a year's sabbatical and my first pair of reading glasses. Each one is like a vast Victorian narrative painting, Frith's Derby Day, but done in the style of Tintin - and with jokes, and infinite patience.Handford's settings vary from the humdrum to the hallucinogenic, from a sporting field (full of characteristic visual puns that children will love: a pear skater, a tennis "ace" and so on) to a world where balloons and Victorian steamers battle green dragons. And clearly all the activities you find in our libraries are really important to that as the nights draw in and people can feel lonely and isolated.