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Grade 4–7—This concise biography discusses the creator of the popular computer and trading-card games. Students will enjoy learning about Tajiri's love of video games and his long, difficult journey to create them. The short, fact-filled chapters boast plenty of color photographs and are well organized with colorful subheadings that will help readers to navigate the book quickly and easily. The index is comprehensive, and difficult bolded vocabulary such as Asperger syndrome (which Tajiri has been diagnosed with) is explained in the helpful glossary. Students will be drawn to the cover image of the popular Pokémon character Pikachu and will want to discover what is inside this biography.—Rachel Artley, Watertown Elementary School, TN Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.