By Erin Wood
If you’re a nostalgic ‘80s fan and love to go on the hunt Where’s-Waldo-for-adults style, you can’t miss Little Rock illustrator Sally Nixon’s latest, Let’s Go to the Mall: An ‘80s Seek-and-Find.
Featured at the 2024 Six Bridges Book Festival and published by the always-on-trend Chronicle Books, this retro twist on the seek-and-find book features 20 radical scenes of life in the 80s. Explore burger joints, video rental stores, and high school lunch tables, keeping an eye out for fanny packs, cassette players, and other fun hidden objects along the way. It also makes a fun group activity and would be a great coffee table book to leave open at your next 80s-themed party.
Nixon is also the illustrator of Houseplants and Hot Sauce: A Seek-And-Find-Book for Grown-Ups (Chronicle Books, 2017), a cheeky seek-and-find featuring illustrated scenes from the life of a modern gal—from brunch with friends to shopping for succulents—with clever challenges on every page.
Nixon earned her BFA in illustration from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Both her books are available wherever books are sold, and you can also find her illustrations via her buzzing Etsy store.
Hot Springs native Erin Wood is a writer, editor, and publisher in Little Rock. She owns and runs etaliapress.com. Wood is the author of “Women Make Arkansas: Conversations With 50 Creatives” (2019) and editor of and a contributor to “Scars: An Anthology” (2015).
