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April 4, 2009 by Travis Jonker

Waldo World Record

April 4, 2009 by Travis Jonker   1 comments

Believe it or not, in the school library world, Where’s Waldo books can be pretty controversial. Many a dismissive comment has fell upon my ears regarding He Who Rocks the Red-and-White. It stems from the whole reading vs. not reading debate that will be raging for as long as kids are reading and not reading.

But all that isn’t important right now. What I really want to ask you is this: Remember that one Where’s Waldo where you had to find the real Waldo among the impostors? At Rutgers University on April 2nd, 2009, that page came to life. An image of the event via the pop culture website BuzzFeed:

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Via New York Magazine, the press release:

Last night, on April 2nd, 2009, the Rutgers University Programming Association (RUPA) and Rutgers Student Life broke the Guinness World Record for The World’s Largest Gathering of People Dressed as Waldo from the iconic picture book series, Where’s Waldo?. 1,052 Rutgers students, staff and community members were spotted “showing their stripes” at the historic State Theatre located in downtown New Brunswick, New Jersey. Rutgers smashed the previous record, set by 577 Acuity Insurance Employees in Sheboygan, Wisconsin at the Acuity Insurance headquarters.

Waldo fan or not, this is kinda cool to see. I’m gonna keep looking for the real one.

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About Travis Jonker

Travis Jonker is an elementary school librarian in Michigan. He writes reviews (and the occasional article or two) for School Library Journal and is a member of the 2014 Caldecott committee. You can email Travis at scopenotes@gmail.com, or follow him on Twitter: @100scopenotes.

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  1. Elizabeth says

    April 4, 2009 at 8:41 pm

    Awesome. And as a Wisconsin resident, it makes me feel good to see that we were the previous record holders. Even if it means that in this, as in so much else (public university funding?), we can’t seem to hold on to what once made us great.

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