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[TOMT] [Book] [2000s] Illustrated Children's Globe-Hopping Puzzle Book
Looking for the name of a beloved children's book, something which I believe was a puzzle book in the vein of Where's Waldo? At the very least it was illustrated and had minimal text but huge cartoony illustrations. It followed a group of kids/teens travelling across countries (maybe also through time) via some sort of magic artifact (I think?)?
Other specific details:
- A page-spread at the boat-race in Lake Titicaca
- A page-spread of Inca rope bridges?
- A page-spread with the Australian Aboriginal legend of Tiddalik.
- A page-spread featuring Koinobori in Japan?
- A page-spread somewhere in MENA, possibly in a Bedouin camp?
I read it in the 2010s, and it didn't seem older than the 90s at the oldest.
u/pest_control_fan — 2 months ago
▲ 2 r/whatsthatbook
Globe-Hopping Children's Puzzle Book
Looking for a beloved children's book, something which I believe was a puzzle book in the vein of Where's Waldo? At the very least it was illustrated and had minimal text but huge cartoony illustrations. It followed a group of kids/teens travelling across countries (maybe also through time) via some sort of magic artifact (I think?)?
Other specific details:
- A page-spread at the boat-race in Lake Titicaca
- A page-spread of Inca rope bridges?
- A page-spread with the Australian Aboriginal legend of Tiddalik.
- A page-spread featuring Koinobori in Japan?
- A page-spread somewhere in MENA, possibly in a Bedouin camp?
I read it in the 2010s, and it didn't seem older than the 90s at the oldest.
u/pest_control_fan — 2 months ago
▲ 66 r/worldbuilding
Normally I'm very methodical in my worldbuilding, but this was an exercise in making it up as I go along -- so a lot more attention was paid to making it "feel" like a real setting than to elaborating on details in massive depth.
This, then, is a shot of two Wanderers -- flying urban insect-eaters -- gathering at sunset over the East Parapet of a grand central palace, where a street market is just wrapping up. Visible in this picture are an ascetic monk arguing with a trader, a jester performing for a minor noble, an attendant drying clothes, two armored guards, and a foreign vagabond relaxing atop the palace's wall.
Some details of note as I built the world out -- facepaint! A majority of the characters have painted faces, which they use as a class indicator. Hair! Men tend to wear their hair up (although the monk leaves it to grow as it will, and the vagabond covers it entirely), while women wear it down. Clothes! Nobles, attendants, and other genteel types tend to wear wraps and skirts, in clean white or fancy orange and green, while others may need more work-ready pants. Stomach-wraps are also an important part of the clothing, worn in some form by basically every character present.
u/pest_control_fan — 2 months ago