New for 2025! Dive into reading with this short storybook from Pokémon Horizons: The Series, perfect for young or reluctant readers 1. A new Level 1 Reader, for the youngest Pokémon fans learning to read independently. 2. Featuring Pokémon Horizons characters, Sprigatito and Liko. 3. Pokémon is the biggest franchise of all time achieving sales of over $150 billion. 4. Trading Card Game sells over 2 billion cards a year, and is sold in 89 countries and 14 languages.

5. In 2022 a rare Pokémon playing card sold for $5 million. 6. Pokémon celebrates 30 years in 2026. 7. Pokémon animated television series boasts over 1,200 episodes spanning 26 seasons, plus 23 animated Pokémon movies to date. 8. Pokémon animation is licensed for broadcast in 177 countries and regions in over 30 languages.

9. First-ever live-action Pokémon film, Detective Pikachu, starring Ryan Reynolds premiered in May 2019. Movie garnered widespread, mainstream, buzz. 10. Mobile game sensation Pokémon GO has received more than one billion downloads globally since launch in July 2016. Competition: Minecraft; Survival Mode; Mobs in the Overworld; Super Mario Meet Mario; Welcome to Galar; Missing Food Mystery; Mario Kart; Step into Reading; Oxford Reading Tree; Biff, Chip and Kipper; Meet Team Sonic; I can read; Bob books; library. Ladybird; Bloomsbury; Usborne; Storybots; Disney; Marvel; Sonic the Hedgehog; Lego;.