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Let's Find Pokémon! Emerald
All your favorite Pok - mon are hidden in different places--the ocean, the mountains, even in the fog!! Can you spot them in the crowd? Gotta catch 'em all, but you have to find them first!
- GenresChildrens
28 pages, Hardcover
First published August 10, 2005
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March 2, 2025
My favorite generation of Pokémon!! Not my favorite of the Let’s Find books, but a lovely piece of art and a charming activity book nonetheless. Delighted by the locations of focus chosen for this one– Unexpected and cool!
It’s kind of a bummer that somewhere along the way the illustrator stopped including every Pokémon in each spread– granted, I would not want to draw and color all 386 existing Pokémon for like, ten paintings in a row, and I certainly didn’t have it in me this time to comb through the pages and make sure each Pokémon appeared at least once (next time for sure. im putting it on hold again *UPDATE 3/2/25: tragically failed almost immediately. I couldn't find Ivysaur, man.), but there were noticeably fewer than, say, 150 Pokémon on each page, and it really does weaken the overall effect. There were fewer interactions between the Pokémon, too, with the exception of the sections created for the comics at the back of the book– and they did something weird with that one, too, where they put the same two Pokémon,on spreads multiple times in order to get enough panels for the comic. So not only were we not getting the full pokédex with each page, just a random assortment from the three generations, we were getting some Pokémon more than once in a noticeable and kind of disruptive way.
But that bothered me much less when I was working on finding those panels than it did when I was just looking at the illustrations for the first time. And overall, the illustrations were still pretty stunning– like, the librarian handed it to me and actually went, “Ooh, what a pretty cover!” The colors were just *that* good. Insanely vibrant– the Goodreads cover doesn’t do it justice. And the illustrator did this thing with Silcoon and Cascoon where the little spiky lines coming from their bodies were actually like, strands of a sticky web holding their cocoons in place against the corner of a wall or something, and I swear that’s the first time I’ve seen them depicted like that, but that must be what that’s supposed to look like. Mystery that I didn’t even know was a mystery.
tl;dr, not the peak of the series, but still very nice. I really hope I can get my hands on the RS and Crystal books at some point too.
It’s kind of a bummer that somewhere along the way the illustrator stopped including every Pokémon in each spread– granted, I would not want to draw and color all 386 existing Pokémon for like, ten paintings in a row, and I certainly didn’t have it in me this time to comb through the pages and make sure each Pokémon appeared at least once (next time for sure. im putting it on hold again *UPDATE 3/2/25: tragically failed almost immediately. I couldn't find Ivysaur, man.), but there were noticeably fewer than, say, 150 Pokémon on each page, and it really does weaken the overall effect. There were fewer interactions between the Pokémon, too, with the exception of the sections created for the comics at the back of the book– and they did something weird with that one, too, where they put the same two Pokémon,on spreads multiple times in order to get enough panels for the comic. So not only were we not getting the full pokédex with each page, just a random assortment from the three generations, we were getting some Pokémon more than once in a noticeable and kind of disruptive way.
But that bothered me much less when I was working on finding those panels than it did when I was just looking at the illustrations for the first time. And overall, the illustrations were still pretty stunning– like, the librarian handed it to me and actually went, “Ooh, what a pretty cover!” The colors were just *that* good. Insanely vibrant– the Goodreads cover doesn’t do it justice. And the illustrator did this thing with Silcoon and Cascoon where the little spiky lines coming from their bodies were actually like, strands of a sticky web holding their cocoons in place against the corner of a wall or something, and I swear that’s the first time I’ve seen them depicted like that, but that must be what that’s supposed to look like. Mystery that I didn’t even know was a mystery.
tl;dr, not the peak of the series, but still very nice. I really hope I can get my hands on the RS and Crystal books at some point too.
April 2, 2012
Really Fun! And the artwork is beautiful. Plus finding the Pokemon was a little challenging and they had a few extra things in the back to find so you can go through it again! :)
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