By Scholastic
The fat stat book that lists hundreds of Pokémon a block at a time, for the child who wants to know every single one.
Hundreds of Pokémon, each with a picture, its type, its height and weight, and a line about what it does, packed page after page. There's no story. Your child looks a Pokémon up, reads its block, and moves to the next, the way they'd flip through a deck of cards. It's the book they carry to the car and quote at dinner.
This is a lookup book, not a story, and that's the point. A child who can rattle off the type and evolution of hundreds of Pokémon is holding a mountain of detail in their head, which is real work, and for a lot of children who swear they hate reading, a handbook like this is the first book they choose on their own. Short entries, a picture beside every one, no chapter waiting to be finished.