Pokémon Tales
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Pokémon Tales (Japanese: ポケモンえほん Pokémon Picture Book) are a series of children's picture books published by VIZ Media in North America and Shōgakukan in Japan. A small number of artists collectively provided illustrations across the series, many of which have since become established within the Pokémon franchise. Each book contains a story focusing on one Pokémon, such as a Squirtle afraid to come out of his shell or a hungry Snorlax. While the intial series comprises of 48 books, only 23 were translated into English. Two Pokémon Tales gift sets were available: the first one contained the first four books and the Mewtwo Strikes Back special book, and the second one contained books 5-8 and the Power of One special book.
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Pokémon Tales
| English No. |
Japanese No. |
Title | Author | Illustrator | Original release date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Charmander Sees a Ghost | Akihito Toda | Kagemaru Himeno | 1997-07 |
| 2 | 2 | Come Out, Squirtle! | Tomoaki Imakuni | Naoyo Kimura | 1997-07 |
| 3 | 3 | Bulbasaur's Trouble | Akihito Toda | Benimaru Itoh | 1997-07 |
| 4 | 4 | Pikachu's Day | Toshinao Aoki | Toshinao Aoki | 1997-07 |
| — | 5 | Slowpoke's Big Yawn | Akihito Toda | Miki Tanaka | 1997-07 |
| 21 | 6 | Onix Underground | Akihito Toda | Benimaru Itoh | 1997-08 |
| — | 7 | Just Like That, Chansey | Tokoya Kanabun | Tokoya Kanabun | 1997-08 |
| — | 8 | Transform, Ditto | Sumiyoshi Kizuki | Sumiyoshi Kizuki | 1997-08 |
| 12 | 9 | Lapras Makes a Friend | Kunimi Kawamura | Toshinao Aoki | 1997-08 |
| — | 10 | Farfetch'd, Hand Me That Leek | Junko Wada | Yukiko Baba | 1997-08 |
| — | 11 | What's Exeggutor's Favorite Word? | Eriko Matsumura | Kouichi Ooyama | 1997-09 |
| — | 12 | Rhydon and the Planet's Navel | Kazuaki Yamamoto | Mitsuhiro Arita | 1997-09 |
| 14 | 13 | Diglett's Birthday Party | Junko Wada | Yasuto Arai | 1997-09 |
| — | 14 | Where is Weedle's Father? | Akihito Toda | Akemi Sugiura | 1997-09 |
| 6 | 15 | Where's Clefairy's Voice? | Kunimi Kawamura | Kagemaru Himeno | 1997-09 |
| — | 16 | Doduo yoi don! | Tomokazu Komiya | Tomokazu Komiya | 1997-11 |
| 10 | 17 | Snorlax's Snack | Sumiyoshi Kizuki | Sumiyoshi Kizuki | 1997-11 |
| 16 | 18 | Seel to the Rescue! | Kazuaki Yamamoto | Naoyo Kimura | 1997-11 |
| — | 19 | Spherical Electrode | Tsunekaz Ishihara | Toshinao Aoki | 1997-11 |
| — | 20 | Still More to Come for Caterpie | Akihito Toda | Kagemaru Himeno | 1997-11 |
| 13 | 21 | Horsea Likes the Sea | Junko Wada | Yuka Morii | 1998-01 |
| — | 22 | Let's Play Some More, Porygon | Toshiko Takashi | Sumiyoshi Kizuki | 1998-01 |
| — | 23 | Amnesia Pidgeot | Choji Yoshikawa | Toshinao Aoki | 1998-01 |
| 13 | 24 | Eevee's Weather Report | Junko Wada | Masako Yamashita | 1998-01 |
| 15 | 25 | First Prize for Starmie | Kazuyuki Yamamoto | Kagemaru Himeno | 1998-01 |
| — | 26 | Lots of Poliwhirl! | Hajime Yume | Kaoru Iwasa | 1998-04 |
| 23 | 27 | A Star for Tauros | Akihito Toda | Yukiko Baba | 1998-04 |
| — | 28 | Lickitung Licks Everything | Junko Igarashi | Naoyo Kimura | 1998-04 |
| — | 29 | Oddish's Hide and Seek | Kunihiko Yuyama | Tomokazu Komiya | 1998-04 |
| 11 | 30 | Jigglypuff's Magic Lullaby | Megumi Hayashibara | Kagemaru Himeno | 1998-04 |
| — | 31 | I'm Cubone! | Sumiyoshi Kizuki | Sumiyoshi Kizuki | 1998-07 |
| — | 32 | I Want to Become a Blastoise | Junko Wada | Toshinao Aoki | 1998-07 |
| — | 33 | Tiny Haunter | Aya Kusube | Aya Kusube | 1998-07 |
| 18 | 34 | Magnemite's Mission | Yachiyo Numazaki | Keiji Kinebuchi | 1998-08 |
| 7 | 35 | Fly on, Butterfree | Toshiko Takashi | Naoyo Kimura | 1998-08 |
| — | 36 | Make Pizza! Machop | Keiko Yanagisawa | Yuka Morii | 1998-08 |
| 5 | 37 | Psyduck's Tongue Twisters | Hajime Yume | Kagemaru Himeno | 1998-12 |
| — | 38 | Vulpix and Girls | Akihito Toda | Miki Tanaka | 1998-12 |
| — | 39 | Heart-pounding Sandshrew | Tomokazu Komiya | Tomokazu Komiya | 1998-12 |
| 8 | 40 | Dragonite's Christmas | Junko Wada | Naoyo Kimura | 1999-01 |
| — | 41 | What's a Metapod? | Sumiyoshi Kizuki | Sumiyoshi Kizuki | 1999-01 |
| 9 | 42 | Meet Mew! | Akihito Toda | Kagemaru Himeno | 1999-01 |
| — | 43 | Meowth's Moon-view Noodles | Inuko Inuyama | Keralino Sandorovich | 1999-07 |
| — | 44 | Hitmonlee's Extending Feet | Motomichi Sakata | Shin-ichi Yoshida | 1999-07 |
| 20 | 45 | Gengar's Shadow | Aya Kusube | Aya Kusube | 1999-07 |
| 19 | 46 | Don't Laugh, Charizard! | Akihito Toda | Naoyo Kimura | 2000-03 |
| 21 | 47 | Togepi's Tears | Hajime Yume | Kagemaru Himeno | 2000-03 |
| 17 | 48 | Mewtwo's Watching You! | Akihito Toda | Aya Kusube | 2000-03 |
Special Pokémon Tales
| English No. |
Japanese No. |
Title | Author | Illustrator | Original release date |
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| 1 | 1 | I'm Not Pikachu! | Junko Wada | Toshinao Aoki | 1998-09 |
| 2 | 2 | Pikachu's Unparalleled Adventure | Junko Wada | Toshinao Aoki | 1999-08 |
Pokémon Gold and Silver Tales
A second series of Pokémon Tales books were published following the release of Pokémon Gold and Silver. Unlike the initial Pokémon Tales series, all of these books were translated into English.
| English No. |
Japanese No. |
Title | Author | Illustrator | Original release date |
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| 1 | 1 | Detective Chikorita | Akihito Toda | Sumiyoshi Kizuki | 2001-12 |
| 2 | 2 | Cyndaquil and the Mysterious Hole | Akihito Toda | Toshinao Aoki | 2001-12 |
| 3 | 3 | Totodile's One Gulp | Akihito Toda | Benimaru Itoh | 2001-12 |
| 4 | 4 | Muddy Pichu | Akihito Toda | Naoyo Kimura | 2002-01 |
| 5 | 5 | Wobbuffet Watches Clouds | Akihito Toda | Yasuto Arai | 2002-01 |
| 6 | 6 | Swinub's Nose | Akihito Toda | Kagemaru Himeno | 2002-04 |
| 7 | 7 | Wake up, Lugia! | Akihito Toda | Toshinao Aoki | 2002-04 |
| 8 | 8 | Look Out Houndour! | Akihito Toda | Midori Harada | 2002-08 |
| 9 | 9 | Corsola's Brave New World | Akihito Toda | Tomokazu Komiya | 2002-08 |
Pokémon Exciting Tales
| No. | Title | Author | Illustrator | Release date |
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| 1 | Pichu-Pichu Staring Contest! | Akihito Toda | Kouki Saitou | 2003-07 |
| 2 | PokePoke Oekaki | Akihito Toda | Naoyo Kimura | 2003-07 |
Pokémon Daisuki Tales
These books were available to view online exclusively to Pokémon Daisuki Club members in 2005. On September 4, 2007 Media Factory printed and distributed the first four publications. Each of these books are hardback with a ball chain and come in individually designed boxes. The books Mysterious Stocking and Mysterious Drum were also later published and distributed throught the Daiuki Club in February 2009.
| No. | Title | Illustrator |
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| 1 | Mysterious Prank | |
| 2 | Mysterious Yacht | |
| 3 | Mysterious Crayon | Midori Harada |
| 4 | Mysterious Maze | Masakazu Fukuda |
| 5 | Mysterious Rainbow Color | |
| 6 | Mysterious Hide and Seek | |
| 7 | Mysterious Pirate Ship | |
| 8 | Mysterious Stocking | |
| 9 | Mysterious Constellation | Mitsuhiro Arita |
| 10 | Mysterious Procession | Sumiyoshi Kizuki |
| 11 | Mysterious Drum | Tomokazu Komiya |
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