Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Star Wars Golden Books #7

by Christopher Nicholas, Caleb Meurer (Illistrator), Micky Rose (Illistrator)

The epic space saga, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, is retold in the iconic Little Golden Book format! Featuring stunning retro illustrations, this book is perfect for Star Wars—and Little Golden Book—fans of all ages!

Genres: Star Wars, Childrens, Picture Books, Science Fiction, Space, Kids, War

24 pages, Hardcover

First published April 12, 2016

Reviews

[Hope · Rating 5 out of 5]

While this is another great Star Wars adaptation for kids-compared to the older Star Wars golden books, I thought this one was really wordy and much more intense. It also glosses over death and killing, but overall it is a good book for parents who might want their kids to understand whats going on before watching the films

[Cassey · Rating 4 out of 5]

Perfect for a Star Wars little - Keiden has us read this every day.

[Jenny Kris-Lee · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book for beginner readers.

[Eugenio · Rating 3 out of 5]

It feels like when compared to the older Golden label SW books, this one is intense with story and really wordy. I liked it over all but my daughters enjoyment drops this to 3 stars.

[Aarvik · Rating 3 out of 5]

Aarvik likes the super fantasy reads

[KaitandMaddie · Rating 5 out of 5]

BB-8 is Maddie’s favourite droid and it’s a good summary.

[Tapani Aulu · Rating 2 out of 5]

En keksi enää mitään sanottavaa näistä ja vielä pari kirjaa jäljellä. 6-vuotiaalle nämä on hienoja. Ei oo koskaan nähnyt elokuvia, mutta hahmot on tuttuja.

[Vallyn · Rating 4 out of 5]

The illustrations in this books were very nice. My daughter really seemed to enjoy them. Nice synopsis of the whole story in a quick easy read.

[David Salter · Rating 2 out of 5]

Like the adaptations of episodes 1-6, the Little Golden Book adaptation of Star Wars episode 7: The Force Awakens, does a serviceable job of fulfilling its raison d'etre, which is to allow parents of a certain generation to bring their young progeny up to speed on the basic characters and plot of the Star Wars films in preparation to actual viewing of the films at a later, more age-appropriate date. In fact, the flat, stylized semi-cartoonish illustrations go a touch above-and-beyond and are rather charming in their own right.

And that's pretty much the sum total of my take on the first six adaptations.

However...

In the case of The Force Awakens, the simplified version of the film's story makes blazingly clear just how large a percentage of its plot episode seven shares with episode four, to the extent that it's just freakin' impossible to ignore the fact that The Force Awakens is a degraded second generation photocopy of A New Hope. I lost track of the number of times my five year old daughter chimed in with "That's just like in the other book when..." during our bedtime reading of this one.

-2 stars for being a mediocre reboot of the first film rather than an original story.
+1 star for the fairly decent illustrations

[Cheryl Gladfelter · Rating 4 out of 5]

Seriously, these Golden Book adaptations of Star Wars are awesome. I would have loved them as a kid as much as I love them as an adult.

[Elle · Rating 3 out of 5]

A beautiful stylish retelling of the Star Wars saga for young readers.

[Jocelin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Star Wars Little Golden Book adaptation of Force Awakens: Good!

[Laura · Rating 5 out of 5]

If your child loves Star Wars, he or she will love this book. The pictures explode from the page as the story unfolds for your pre-schooler/early reader.

[Meredith · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is the Golden Book novelization of "The Force Awakens."