This week my sons and I will give you a look at Death Star Battles, another DK Readers level 3 book – meant for children who are reading alone. As mentioned last time, this book was a much bigger hit with my sons than Join the Rebels had been, and after the break I’ll give [...]

I had been seeing this book for awhile without really knowing what it was, but finally decided to give it a try and check it out with my sons. As it turns out, my sons have had books out of the library like this before – I just didn’t know it was called Scanimation. I’ll [...]

Back to the DK Readers series this week, this time with a look at Join the Rebels, a level 3 book – meant for children who are reading alone. Combined with my next review (of Death Star Battles) it was interesting to see how my sons reacted to each book, and just when I think [...]

It’s been a little while since I last had the chance to review a Star Wars book with my sons, most of the reviews that have been posted recently were reviews written a few months ago. But when The Clone Wars Character Encyclopedia showed up, I knew it was going to be a big hit [...]

Sometimes a whole bunch of news comes out during the course of a given week that articles just don’t last long enough on our front page. Or perhaps it’s just that the piece of news wasn’t enough to warrant a front page story, but is still deserving of being recognized as newsworthy. In Case You [...]

Having first shown up in some catalogues as The Adventures of Han and Chewy, this is the first book in a new series by Scholastic targeted at readers around the 8-10 year range – but easily enjoyed by other ages as you’ll soon see. This book takes place during the time before A New Hope, [...]

Sometimes a whole bunch of news comes out during the course of a given week that articles just don’t last long enough on our front page. Or perhaps it’s just that the piece of news wasn’t enough to warrant a front page story, but is still deserving of being recognized as newsworthy. In Case You [...]

Back to the DK Readers series this week, with a look at The Story of Darth Vader, a level 3 book – meant for children who are reading alone. This book is very similar to Luke Skywalker’s Amazing Story – a book I’ve reviewed previously – in that it provides a broad picture of the [...]

When you’re a kid, playing Star Wars is about doing whatever you want in that Galaxy Far, Far Away. Do you want Yoda to turn to the dark side and have Luke face down his old master – why you can do that with the toys. What about seeing if the X-Wing is faster than [...]

With Star Pilot I knew I was moving into much more difficult territory, but it would also be one that my son would really want to read. Who hasn’t been fascinated by the starships of Star Wars? But this book is a DK Readers level 3, well above what my son is capable of reading. That [...]