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Australian bookstore QBD Books has an entry for an upcoming guidebook titled Stitch: Alien Experiment Character Guide that will be published in Australia and New Zealand on November 1, 2026. The book's ISBN number is 9781761819582, and it will be a hardcover book that's 144 pages long with new artwork of various experiments. Preorders for the book on QBD Books cost A$19.99/NZ$22.99. No release outside of Australia and New Zealand has been announced yet. The description reads:

Evil genius Dr. Jumba Jookiba has been busy in his laboratory. Hundreds of his illegal genetic experiments have escaped his lab and are now scattered across the island of Kaua'i. Enter the Undercover Intergalactic Experiment Retrievers, Lilo and Stitch! With the help of their `ohana, Lilo and Stitch have assembled this handy Alien Experiment Character Guide. Inside you can study the details of all 127 Experiments that have been located so far, and become an Intergalactic Experiment Retriever yourself!

This will be the first time that fans in the Anglosphere will have a complete guidebook to the franchise's confirmed experiments, following a 2010 Japanese character guidebook that includes most experiments known at the time of its publication. It will include experiments not just from Lilo & Stitch: The Series and its films, but even the Stitch! anime and other spin-offs including Disney's Stitch: Experiment 626 video game!

Here are the key selling points as taken from a Scholastic Australia trade publication:

The definitive guide to Dr. Jumba’s Experiments, this Character Guide features all Stitch’s “cousins” as told throughout the Lilo and Stitch franchise. Each of the 127 experiments are presented with their names, description of powers and special abilities in an encyclopedia format.

Character Guides are an extremely popular format for children’s entertainment, familiarising them with the format of a non-fiction encyclopedia and expanding their knowledge of their favourite fictional worlds.

Stitch continues his reign as Disney’s highest performing solo-property, a modern Disney classic whose mischievous charm, family-focused story and ever-growing popularity make him an irresistible character.