By Tracey West
Step-by-step drawing lessons for the child who wants to make their own Pokémon, not just look at them.
Simple numbered steps for drawing Pikachu, Charmander, and a stack of others, each starting from a few circles and lines and building up to the finished creature. Your child follows the panels with a pencil, and a Pokémon appears. It's a doing book, not a reading one.
This is an activity book, so the pull is the pencil rather than the page. Your child follows short steps to make a Pokémon of their own, which is a quiet kind of reading, doing what the instructions say in order, and the reward is something they made with their hands. For a child who won't sit with text but will spend an hour drawing Charizard, this points that patience at following directions.