Waldo? Is a series of children's book created by Martin Handford. Essentially, the books consist o a series of detailed double-page illustrations that show dozens of individuals doing amusing activities in certain locations. The challenge is to find Waldo hidden in the group. Waldo is a rather nerdy looking character, with a red and white striped shirt, hat and glasses, but there are a number of similar shaped and colored objects within the illustrations. The books are fun, educational, and have inspired a television spin-off, a comic strip and a series of video games (Duckett, 1997).

This simple story/game is not so simple when one looks at it from a cognitive and/or pedagogical basis, though. First, one might ask what the story and illustration tells us about our world? Well, it asks the participant to use cognitive skills to scan hundreds of images and parts of images to find a...
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