PB42

Meet Mew!
ISBN:	1421509350
Published:	November 21, 2006
Publisher:	VIZ Media
Author:	Akihito Toda
Preceded By:	Dragonite's Christmas EN What Is a Trancell? JP
Succeeded By:	Snorlax's Snack EN Nyarth's Moon-viewing Soba JP

Meet Mew! (Japanese: めだちたがりやのミュウ Attention-Hog Mew) is written by Akihito Toda and illustrated by Kagemaru Himeno. In English, it is the ninth book in the Pokémon Tales series. In Japanese, it is the 42nd book. It is 16 pages long.

Synopsis

A young boy sees a Mew late at night and tells his classmates about it the next day by drawing on the chalkboard, only for them to mock him and say Mew are incredibly rare and never let anyone see them. Meanwhile, the Mew he saw is being scolded by other Mew, saying they only show themselves to humans for good reasons and that this is the tenth time that it'd shown itself needlessly. The boy sadly walks home from school and stops in the park, with Mew deciding that him being sad is a good reason to show themselves - however it gets stopped by the other Mew, who say they have a plan. That night the group of Mew show themselves to all of the boy's classmates, and the next morning the class chalkboard is covered in drawings of Mew, making the little boy happy despite his teacher's scoldings.

Blurb

Mew is the rarest and most mysterious Pokemon of all. In this book, a boy sees Mew, but no one believes him. Touched by the boy's sadness, Mew hatches a plan to turn the skeptics into believers.

Characters

Humans

• Boy
• Boy's classmates
• Boy's teacher

Pokémon

• Mew
• Charizard (Easter egg)

Publications

	Edition	Country	Company	Date	ISBN
	First Edition	Japan	Shogakukan	December 1998	ISBN 4097287427
	First Edition	USA	VIZ Media	April 5, 2000	ISBN 1569314403
	Second Edition	USA	VIZ Media	November 21, 2006	ISBN 1421509350

Trivia

• Like every Pokémon Tales book, this book features a hidden Pokémon for the reader to find- in this book, it's Charizard, who on a TV one of the boy's classmates is watching.

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