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A review by michaelgreenreads
Monster Kids: How Pokémon Taught a Generation to Catch Them All by Daniel Dockery
informative
lighthearted
5.0
This was a Christmas gift from the love of my life. ♥️🥰
It feels fascinating and strange to read about my own childhood. MONSTER KIDS provides a behind-the-scenes look of Pokémon’s emergence in the 1990s (and everyone else who tried to keep up).
What I loved: the author casts a WIDE net when doing research. There is so much weird cultural and media minutiae in here that I couldn’t believe was real. Fascinating, fascinating, fascinating. 🤓💕
Had to laugh as academia has me trained to expect historians to be hedging their feelings in ~objectivity~ but Daniel Dockery is a fan boy and it comes through in the writing. Business decisions are “underrated!” or “unfortunate!” 😅
Moment of zen: it struck me how little impact “critics” had in my life as a child (perhaps the life of any child!). Reminded me there is a separate world of kids talking about things themselves. ♥️
It feels fascinating and strange to read about my own childhood. MONSTER KIDS provides a behind-the-scenes look of Pokémon’s emergence in the 1990s (and everyone else who tried to keep up).
What I loved: the author casts a WIDE net when doing research. There is so much weird cultural and media minutiae in here that I couldn’t believe was real. Fascinating, fascinating, fascinating. 🤓💕
Had to laugh as academia has me trained to expect historians to be hedging their feelings in ~objectivity~ but Daniel Dockery is a fan boy and it comes through in the writing. Business decisions are “underrated!” or “unfortunate!” 😅
Moment of zen: it struck me how little impact “critics” had in my life as a child (perhaps the life of any child!). Reminded me there is a separate world of kids talking about things themselves. ♥️