THE OFFICIAL POKEMON HANDBOOK 1999 MOVIE

When you have a maximum crew of six PokГ©mon trained, you are ready to challenge other trainers who also have six PokГ©mon ready to fight you (ibid. Hence their slogan, 'Gotta catch' 'em all' (or from the parents' point of view: 'Gotta buy 'em all!')ДЄccording to the official PokГ©mon Handbook, there are 150 different kinds of cute little stuffed pocket monsters (and the number is growing) who вЂњlove to fightвЂќ (ibid. After that the final accomplishment is to capture and catalogue all the PokГ©mon in the world. You do this until you have beaten all other local trainers and defeat the Elite 4 Trainers (who are 'masters of evil,' according to the official вЂњPokГ©mon HandbookвЂќ by Maria Barbo.) The ultimate goal is to defeat the PokГ©mon Master and ascend to his throne (according to вЂњPokГ©mon Pathways to AdventureвЂќ by Jason Rich). Once they are ready, you can challenge other PokГ©mon Trainers. The object of the game is to capture or buy PokГ©mon and train them to obey and attack on command. Whether you are talking about one or two PokГ©mon, it is still PokГ©mon! (It's like one or two moose not mooses.) Poke is acceptable on occasion, however. First of all, PokГ©mon is both singular and plural. Let's start with the basics from the world of the PokГ©mon.

When our children become this fascinated with cartoon culture, it's good for parents to be aware of what's behind this kind of pop-culture phenomenon. Kids are coercing their parents to shell out millions of dollars on trading cards and video games, as well as hundreds of kiddie items (like lunch pails, back packs, etc.) plastered with colorful PokГ©mon images ('TV Guide', Oct.

THE OFFICIAL POKEMON HANDBOOK 1999 MOVIE

There is a popular PokГ©mon cartoon series on TV and a new hit movie in the theaters. Pocket Monsters) is impacting children's culture like few fads before it. Since its inception in Japan barely three years ago, PokГ©mon (a.k.a.

The official pokemon handbook 1999