Martin Handford, Where’s Wally? Santa Spotlight Search, September 8 2021, RRP $24.99 (hbk), ISBN 9781529500400
Following on from Where’s Wally? Spooky Spotlight Search comes this wonderful festive edition. Without the need for batteries, young readers can slide the clever spotlight searcher into the side of the Where’s Wally? Santa Spotlight Search pages to illuminate six dark winter scenes like a magic torch.
Ho-Ho-Ho! Pull on your Christmas jumper and shake your sleigh bells- it’s time for festive fun! Let’s join hundreds of jolly Santas bustling about getting ready for the biggest day of the year.
In our house we really enjoy the tradition of giving a book to family members on Christmas Eve and this title really is the perfect option for children or adults who enjoy a good puzzle.
In addition to the familiar characters of Wally, Woof, Wenda, Wizard Whitebeard and Odlaw, readers can also search for Santa and all manner of special objects in this title’s six merry scenes.
Martin Handford’s fascination with places, crowds, and patterns are captured in painstaking and humorous detail in the hurly-burly of these fabulously festive scenes. There’s Christmas shopping, a Jolly Jamboree, a festive bake-off, and Santa’s workshop amongst others. As well as the challenge of the spotlight search, each scene contains some extra puzzles and games for readers to try too, such as finding a reindeer in a changing room, matching weird and wonderful brass instruments, and locating the components of toys to build in the workshop.
With so much to find and do, Where’s Wally? Santa Spotlight Search would be a wonderful gift for puzzlers and Where’s Wally enthusiasts and buzzing with hundreds of Santas, plenty of sparkle and festive frolics, this title would be a great way to kick off the holiday countdown.
Reviewed by Lisa Hoad
