Where in the World Is Your Child?! The Search-and-Find Book That Takes Them Around the World

If you grew up hunting for Waldo in his red-and-white stripes, you already know how this works. Where in the World Are You?! is a search-and-find book in the same spirit as Where's Waldo?, with one change kids go wild for: the face hidden in every crowd is theirs.

You upload a photo, and your child is drawn as a cartoon traveler and tucked into seven packed scenes around the globe: Times Square in New York, Rio de Janeiro, London, Paris, Rome, Cairo and Sydney. Every stop comes with three more things to find and a few fun facts about the place, so the hunt doubles as a first trip around the world.

It's made by Adorabook, the personalized storybook maker, and you see the cover with your own child on it before you pay anything.

Finding yourself never gets old. The first time a child spots their own face in a crowd of hundreds, the book becomes theirs in a way a regular search-and-find never does. Expect to be called over to see exactly where they were hiding, every single time.

It's a real challenge. The scenes are as dense as the classics, so the book holds up for months, not minutes. Once they've found themselves, three more things to find in every city give them a second round.

It teaches without trying. Every stop comes with fun facts, a passport page and the next leg on the route map, so kids pick up where Rio or Cairo is just by playing.

Screens off. It's a book you sit and hunt through together, which makes it a natural bedtime, waiting-room or road-trip book.

The book follows the trip in order. Before every city there's a passport page with your child's name, age and eye color, a picture of their cartoon self, the destination, and three things to find: the Statue of Liberty, a hot dog and a baseball in New York, for a start.

The sweet spot is about 4 to 10. Preschoolers love finding themselves and will happily do it every night for a month; older kids race the clock, hunt the three items in each city and start asking where Cairo actually is.

It's an easy gift to get right: for a birthday, for the holidays, or from grandparents, because the whole family ends up crowded around the same page. Because the hero is one specific child, it's one book per child. Siblings each get their own, which, if you've ever watched two kids share a search-and-find book, is a feature.

Adorabook makes two search-and-find books. Both hide your child in seven scenes and cost the same; the difference is the trip.

Can't decide? When you make one, Adorabook also draws your child on the other edition's cover, so adding the second book later takes a click.

Prices are the same for both editions. Standard shipping is free in the US.