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Simplified Series – Where's Waldo?

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My feverish pursuit of MOAR content brought forth this feature: Simplified Series. Here's the pitch: quick synopses (I'll try and keep them spoiler-free-ish, but, you know, most of these are past the statute of limitations on spoilers) of the entries in a series followed by the reasons you should or shouldn't read it. This week: The Where's Waldo Tetralogy by Martin Handford Background Info: So, my research on Wikipedia  tells me that the Where's Waldo books were created by an English illustrator named Martin Handford. Also, that in England, Waldo is named Wally. Also, this is actually a heptalogy, but I only had the first four books when I was a kid, so that's all there is, damnit! So, these aren't books that you read so much, they're fun activity books for kids about finding the eponymous Waldo in a series of increasingly busy illustrations. The books become more difficult as they progress, with less and less of Waldo visible and additional cha...