Random House to publish Mario based books

[Pink Cat]

It's always the one you least expect to get into the book industry...
Anyways...

Random House Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books (U.S.), and Penguin Random House U.K. have partnered with Nintendo to publish a dynamic range of coloring and activity books for children. The books, the first two of which entered the marketplace in early January, are based on Nintendo characters and worlds, including Super Mario, the Legend of Zelda, Splatoon, and Animal Crossing.

“We are thrilled to be partnering with Nintendo to bring the whimsy and adventure of these worlds to the imaginations of our young readers,” said Dennis Shealy, Editorial Director, Random House Books for Young Readers Licensed Publishing.“These activity books will let both new and established fans experience Nintendo characters in a whole new way.”

On January 2, 2018, Random House launched the program with two full-color official sticker books based on the Super Mario and The Legend of Zelda series—Super Mario Official Sticker Book and The Legend of Zelda Official Sticker Book ($12.99). This summer will see the release of Mario Time! and Link’s Book of Adventure (On Sale July 3, 2018 / Hardcovers / $9.99), in addition to Splatoon Official Sticker Book (On Sale July 24, 2018 / Trade Paperback / $12.99). The books in the publishing program include full-color pages with mazes, puzzles, trivia, and more—as well as stickers and other value-added inserts.

“This publishing partnership is an exciting way to bring the colorful worlds of Nintendo to young readers while encouraging creativity,” said Tom Prata, Nintendo of America’s Senior Vice President of Strategic Initiatives. “We are always looking for ways to share our fun-loving characters with kids and families in unique ways.”

Assuming Mario Time is some sort of story book, I'm down, a gal needs something to read every now and then.

 

[LeftyGreenMario]

If this means we get pictures like this

I'm all up for it

 

[Glowsquid]

Random House is the company that owns Prima. i wonder if that played a part in them getting the license?

 

[The Nate]

I honestly wish it's something like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcXr7C_z2uo

 

[Mcmadness]

This wiki is about to get much larger.

 

[TinTinfinite]

Mario Time! was just released this month.

Basically another activity book, plus more.

If anybody has access to this book and "Super Mario Official Sticker Book", probably add these to the wiki.

 

[winstein]

I wonder what kind of Trivia can we expect. After all, us Mario fans would be delighted for something more obscure, but the general populace wouldn't really need that kind of inside information. We also need to know which characters will be featured, so if they featured the characters that aren't main (so besides Mario, Luigi, Peach, Toad, Bowser and Yoshi) such as Wario and Waluigi that would be swell.

Thank you for reading.

 

[TinTinfinite]

Well, we can still add these to the wiki for the scans and some trivia. The wiki already had small articles for books like How to Draw Nintendo Heroes and Villains.

Since Random House is now partnering with Nintendo for publishing Nintendo books, we can soon add the article for Random House.
We already got two more Mario books coming later this year (September 4, 2018) and next year (January 8, 2019).

Power Up! (sticker book)

Here We Go! (colouring book)

 

[HG-The-Hamster]

I know there is a scan of a few of the page's from the sticker book on google books https://books.google.com/books/about/Super_Marifficial_Sticker_Book_Ninten.html?id=-qZJDwAAQBAJ

 

[LeftyGreenMario]

I'd appreciate the stickers. I need to decorate my door to my bedroom even more. :P