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A ''Wimmelbilderbuch'' (German, literally "teeming picture book"), wimmelbook, or hidden picture book is a type of large-format,
wordless picture book A wordless picture book or a almost-wordless picture book is a picture book whose narrative is expressed through the illustrations.
Format
Wordless picture books, according to Arizona State University professor Frank Serafini, have "visually rend ...
. It is characterized by
full-spread drawings (sometimes across
gatefold
A gatefold cover or gatefold LP is a form of packaging for LP records that became popular in the mid-1960s. A gatefold cover, when folded, is the same size as a standard LP cover (i.e., a 12½ inch, or 32.7 centimetre square). The larger gatefo ...
pages) depicting scenes richly detailed with humans, animals, and objects.
Typically made for children, the drawings are filled with characters and items that may be discovered.
Hieronymus Bosch
Hieronymus Bosch (, ; born Jheronimus van Aken ; – 9 August 1516) was a Dutch/ Netherlandish painter from Brabant. He is one of the most notable representatives of the Early Netherlandish painting school. His work, generally oil on o ...
,
Pieter Brueghel the Elder
Pieter Bruegel (also Brueghel or Breughel) the Elder (, ; ; – 9 September 1569) was the most significant artist of Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting, a painter and printmaker, known for his landscapes and peasant scenes (so-called gen ...
and
Hans Jurgen Press are regarded as the fathers of the format. Contemporary wimmelbook authors include
Richard Scarry
Richard McClure Scarry (June 5, 1919 – April 30, 1994) was an American children's author and illustrator who published over 300 books with total sales of over 100 million worldwide. He is best known for his ''Best Ever'' book series that take ...
, ,
Ali Mitgutsch,
Rotraut Susanne Berner
Rotraut Susanne Berner (born 26 August 1948, in Stuttgart) is a German graphic designer and illustrator. She illustrated '' The Number Devil'' by Hans Magnus Enzensberger.
She is well known for a series of popular children's book, called Wimme ...
, and
Eva Scherbarth. In the United Kingdom and the United States, wimmelbooks gained popularity with the success of the ''
Where's Wally?
''Where's Wally?'' (called ''Where's Waldo?'' in North America) is a British series of children's puzzle books created by English illustrator Martin Handford. The books consist of a series of detailed double-page spread illustrations depictin ...
'' series by the British illustrator
.
See also
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Hidden object game
A hidden object game, also called hidden picture or hidden object puzzle adventure (HOPA), is a puzzle video game genre in which the player must find items from a list that are hidden within a scene. Hidden object games are a popular trend in casu ...
*
References
Further reading
* Cornelia Rémi: Wimmelbooks. In: Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer (ed.): ''Routledge Companion to Picturebooks'', London, New York: Routledge, 2017, 158–168. {{ISBN, 978-1-138-85318-8
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