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The new physical edition of Super Mario Galaxy’s in-game picture book is back in stock at Amazon and on sale for its best price yet. Rosalina’s Storybook launched November 25 with a $25 retail price, but Amazon and Walmart are selling the 112-page hardcover book for $21.13. The 15% discount may not stick around at Amazon for long. Rosalina’s Storybook preorders sold out repeatedly at Amazon over the past few months. Each time Amazon restocks the book, it usually sells out in less than a day.
Rosalina’s Storybook was revealed alongside the Super Mario Galaxy + Super Mario Galaxy 2 collection for Switch and Switch 2. It has been the No. 1 best-selling new release from Dark Horse since preorders opened in September.
Updated December 5.
GAMES UPDATE Rosalina’s Storybook (Hardcover)
$21.13 (was $25)
The full-color picture book details Rosalina’s journey to outer space, where she became the protector and leader of the Lumas. All nine chapters from the original in-game book are included with full-page illustrations. The Super Mario Galaxy + Super Mario Galaxy 2 collection for Switch and Switch 2 has a new chapter, but you won’t find those pages in this book.
Check out two of the pages from the upcoming physical edition of Rosalina’s Storybook below.
Super Mario Galaxy + Super Mario Galaxy 2 launched October 2 in physical and digital format for Nintendo Switch and Switch 2. The physical edition is for original Switch consoles, but you can upgrade to the Switch 2 version for free. Both games support traditional button/stick controls and motion controls, and the Switch 2 version runs in 4K resolution. You can get the physical edition of Super Mario Galaxy + Super Mario Galaxy 2 for $69 at Amazon and Walmart.
If you want to play in 4K but don’t yet have a Switch 2, the Mario Kart World Bundle is on sale for $449 (was $500) at Amazon as of December 5.
Nintendo is also releasing its first Super Mario Galaxy Amiibo figures featuring Mario and Luma and Rosalina and Lumas. The new Amiibo are up for preorder for $40 each and are scheduled to launch April 2, 2026. Just keep in mind that preorders for the new Amiibo have been going in and out of stock. Amazon currently has the new Mario Amiibo but is sold out of Rosalina. Target has Mario and Rosalina in stock. Target also has the original Rosalina Super Smash Bros. Amiibo in stock for $20.
The lengthy wait aligns the new Amiibo with the April 2026 premiere of The Super Mario Galaxy Movie.
Dark Horse Super Mario Books
Dark Horse Books has previously collaborated with Nintendo on multiple Super Mario books, including Super Mario Encyclopedia and The Art of Super Mario Odyssey. Both of these highly rated hardcover books are steeply discounted at Amazon.
- Super Mario Encyclopedia: The First 30 Years — $21.77 (
$50) - The Art of Super Mario Odyssey — $28.49 (
$50)
More Super Mario Picture Books & Stories
Rosalina’s Storybook will be the longest Super Mario picture book, but there are other books parents can read to kids while they wait for their preorder to arrive, including Super Mario Little Golden Book and The Super Mario Bros. Movie. We’d also recommend checking out the Super Mario Adventures comic collection and Super Mario Manga Mania.
- Super Mario Adventures Comic Collection — $9.29 (
$17) - Super Mario Manga Mania — $11.17 (
$12) - Super Mario Little Golden Book (Picture Book) — $5 (
$6) - A Hero Like No Other (Mario Movie Picture Book) — $5.57
- Step into Reading Series:
- Mario’s Big Adventure — $4.78 (
$6) - Meet Mario — $4.78 (
$6) - Mario Kart: Off to the Races — $5.57 (
$6)- Hardcover — $15
- Mario’s Big Adventure — $4.78 (
The Metroid series just received a new book
One of Nintendo’s other big Fall 2025 games received a companion book of its own on October 28. Metroid fans can revisit the original trilogy in book format with Metroid Prime 1-3: A Visual Retrospective. Nintendo partnered with Piggyback–the publisher behind the highly rated Legend of Zelda strategy guides–to create the first official book about the Metroid series in a long time.
The 208-page hardcover book was initially revealed last fall with a June 2025 release date, but it was pushed back to October 28. Metroid fans can buy the lavish retrospective for $50at Amazon. The clothbound hardcover has a metallic foil illustration of Samus on the cover and includes archival artwork and behind-the-scenes commentary from the team at Retro Studios. It even has a foreword written by Kensuke Tanabe, the series producer of the Metroid Prime games.
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