Pokemon Super Extra Deluxe Essential Handbook

by Scholastic Inc.

The brand new edition of the bestselling Super Deluxe Essential Handbook is here - and it includes all-new Pokémon! With 560 color pages and info on over 900 Pokémon, this is a must-have for kids of all ages. If you want to catch 'em all, you gotta read about 'em all!This revised and updated edition of the mega-bestselling Essential Handbook and Super Deluxe Essential Handbook has all the stats and facts kids need to know about the world of Pokémon. Essential information on over 900 Pokémon is jam-packed into 560 illustrated, full-color pages.The handbook is easy to read and organized simply and effectively into one comprehensive, kid-friendly reference book. This updated edition features tons of extra pages devoted to the newest Pokémon from the Sword and Shield video games. It is an absolute must-have for Pokémon Trainers of all ages.

Genres: Gaming, Fantasy, Childrens

560 pages, Library Binding

Published January 1, 2021

About the author

For more than 100 years, Scholastic has been meeting children where they are – at school, at home and in their communities – by creating quality content and experiences, all beginning with literacy. Scholastic delivers stories, characters, and learning moments that empower all kids to become lifelong readers and learners through bestselling children's books, literacy- and knowledge-building resources for schools including classroom magazines, and award-winning, entertaining children's media.

Reviews

[Lilybelle · Rating 4 out of 5]

It was a good resource for learning all the pokemon! However, I feel that it would've been better in type or evolution order rather than alphabetical. If a person is looking for a pokemon and knows the type but not the name, it's not practical. I did enjoy learning about pokemon though!

[lake june Turner · Rating 5 out of 5]

very good handbook for the newer generations of pokémon, always pull this out when i need to research stuff!

[Jonathan · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good Pokémon reference book.

My 6 year old son told me to give it 5 stars. He really enjoyed me reading it to him. He also learned to read a decent amount of words from it, since some were repeated quite often.

As an adult I can't rate it quite so highly. As other reviews have mentioned, having the Pokémon in number order, or at least grouped by evolution, would have made it much more useful as a reference and removed the need to list the evolutions multiple times. Also, a lot of the Pokémon had descriptions which repeated themselves. They would have two paragraphs next to each other that were mostly the same.

Overall I enjoyed it as well. It was easy to read in small chunks and it is a good book for younger Pokémon fans.

[Navilan Thangavel · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loooooveee pokemon. The cards I have are precious to me. I wanted this book when I saw it in warehouse during school holidays. it was $20 , but my father suggested we look for this in library. I cant believe my luck, we found it there. I was super excided and reading it everyday. Learnt so much about different types of pokemons from this book.

[Lenny · Rating 3 out of 5]

Though I enjoyed it, there are quite a lot of errors. For example, Braixen is apparently from Johto and and Snom, one of the easiest Pokémon to pronounce is apparently "Snahm". Not to say I dislike it, but I just wish that it was a bit more polished.

[AJ · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a very good book.

[R1 Ireland · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very useful.

[jacob · Rating 4 out of 5]

So many facts so many pokemon

[Connor Fitzgerald · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amazing it has a ton of Pokemon from Abomasnow to Zygarde it includes Common Legendary Mythical and Ultra beast

[Naomi McKinley · Rating 5 out of 5]

It was good! I discovered the coolest things about Gens 7 and 8 because for a very long time I used the Deluxe Essential Handbook. So now when I want to look up, say Marshadow, I can get its stats. It also has the overdrive forms of Zekrom and Reshiram! I’m an avid Pokémon drawer and card trader and this has everything I could want! However, just like in the Super Deluxe Essential Handbook, they have put the cosplay Pikachus as Kanto region Pokémon, however, they are truly Hoenn region Pokémon.