BOOK: The Official Pokemon Handbook

• The latest craze to arrive from Japan,Pokemon (or "Pocket Monsters") are currently everywhere you look. The trading cards may have been banned from some schools for inciting kids to non-educational purposes, but you can catch the loud and colourful cartoon series on satellite most days and two feature films have played to packed houses over the Easter holidays last year and this Christmas. Maria S. Barbo has the official guide to both the well-known characters(including Pikachu, pictured here) and the rarer ones, plus all their special moves and a run-down of all the current merchandise.
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