Hidden object book

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An early forerunner of hidden objects: The Dutch proverbs by Pieter Brueghel the Elder. Ä.
Hidden object from the 31st Chaos Communication Congress

The hidden object book , usually called the hidden object book for short , is a special form of the picture book . The large format compared to other picture books is often characteristic. Often formats larger than A4 are chosen. The pictures, which are usually double-sided on thick cardboard, are “teeming” with details, people, animals and things, so-called hidden objects , from which the name is derived. Dozens of small everyday scenes are shown within one image, which are connected to one another by the common environment, such as a zoo , a city or a farm. In older books there are still texts next to or in the pictures. Today the Wimmel Books are mostly textless, sometimes individual images are shown twice as a search task.

Hidden object books are aimed at children from around 18 months. Since there is always something new to discover, the books are very popular with children and parents. The everyday scenes shown enable a lively exchange between adults and children about the presented situations when viewed together. Therefore, the books are considered to be of educational value, they accompany the children a little on their way to reading competence, allow them to discover different strategies with which they can cope with the world and develop stories from it. They are not taken by the hand by a “red guide” like in didactic or non-fiction books.

Wimmel books are published in many languages ​​and publishers worldwide, including a special Wimmelbuch publisher in Berlin. Well-known German authors of hidden object books are z. For example: Ali Mitgutsch , Rotraut Susanne Berner , Eva Scherbarth , Hans Jürgen Press and Lila L. Leiber . Hidden object books for older children are by the British illustrator Martin Handford ( Where's Walter? ). His books are among the world's best-selling hidden object books. They have been sold over 43 million times in over 33 countries in 22 languages.

The oldest books of this kind have been on sale since the late 1960s, according to antique dealers, but have not yet been called that. Ali Mitgutsch, who published his first book of this kind in 1968, is considered to be the father of hidden objects. However, there are also forerunners of other authors.

Hieronymus Bosch , Pieter Brueghel the Elder , Hans Jürgen Press and Ali Mitgutsch are considered the fathers of the hidden objects .

Others

The digital version of the Wimmelbuch is called Wimmelspiel . The player clicks through different screens of a story and tries to click on as many given objects as possible with the mouse or to combine them. Hidden objects are also a popular motif for puzzle games.

literature

  • Cornelia Rémi: Wimmelbooks. In: Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer (Ed.): Routledge Companion to Picturebooks. London / New York, Routledge 2017, pp. 158–168, ISBN 978-1-138-85318-8
  • Cornelia Rémi: Reading as Playing. The Cognitive Challenge of the Wimmelbook. In: Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer (Ed.): Emergent Literacy - Children's Books from 0 to 3. Studies in Written Language and Literacy. Vol. 13. John Benjamin, Amsterdam 2011, pp. 115-139, ISBN 90-272-1808-0 ( Reading as Playing. Pre-print, online). (English)

Web links

Commons : Hidden object  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. The father of the hidden object books is celebrating his birthday. In: The time. August 20, 2010.
  2. Nanine Linning: bodies of Hieronymus Bosch. DLF , January 19, 2015, accessed June 30, 2015 .
  3. Das Wimmelbuch - picture book full of teeming worlds of images. wimmelbild-buecher.de, accessed on June 30, 2015 .
  4. Hans Jürgen Press - Random House. randomhouse.de, accessed June 30, 2015 .