The reader follows Waldo as he travels through different time periods in history and must try to find him in the illustrations of some of the crowded events in which he participates.
The reader follows Waldo in each picture into the realms of amazing fantasy, searching for him among gobbling gluttons, carpet flyers, red dwarves, deep-sea divers, etc.
Asks readers to find specific objects in the pictures as a lonely little boy made of beads gathers the materials he needs to make himself some friends.