Star Wars Where's the Wookiee? 2 Search and Find Activity Book by Katrina Pallant and Ulises Farinas

Star Wars Where's the Wookiee? 2 Search and Find Activity Book by Katrina Pallant and Ulises Farinas
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Category: Confident Readers
Reviewer: John Lloyd
Summary: A difficult task – perhaps excessively so – lies in wait for the Star Wars fan.
Buy? Yes	Borrow? Yes
Pages: 40	Date: September 2017
Publisher: Egmont
External links: Author's website
ISBN: 9781405284189
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It's not enough these days, you know, to have just one franchise. No, you have to match it with another. You have to mash Doctor Who with the Mister Men. You need zombies in your Pride and Prejudice (don't laugh, the book was much better than the film). Batman has to have a Lego equivalent (and don't laugh, for the film was awfully unfunny). Even when you're a Disneyfied, new-film-every-year-like-it-or-not behemoth like Star Wars, you need some secondary property to latch on to. Hence this, which as the title suggests, is the second book asking you to find the Wookie in the Wally/Waldo-esque scenes.

Here you get fifteen large dioramas to scan, and not only Chewbacca but other Wookies to spot, some of which may or may not be present, dammit. You also get a quick check-list of other characters, but let me blunt about this right from the start, YOU GET NO ANSWERS. So even on the second of the spreads I was gasping for a sight of any wookie, any one of the droids I was looking for, and indeed anyone except a glaring Count Dooku. Cue no end of frustration to turn the air blue – I really was asking where the Dooku are you, Count about several characters. Or something like that, at least.

And, as is the nature of these books, you hit the end, only to find a further selection of things you should go back and spot, and more minutiae for you to pore over and discover. Some are fine, but seriously, if the Force were a valid way of solving this book I would have used it a long time ago. That's partly down to the brilliant choice of scene – droid factories, cloning 'birth' facilities, a very busy Mos Eisley. All are suitably jam-packed with heightened perspective and detail and characters. But the problem with finding things and people can be that the artwork isn't quite as brilliant as it could be. When I did find C3PO I found him a little ropy. Jar Jar Binks (and who ever thought they would want to see him again?!) was even more of a goggly-eyed loon than he should be. General Leia didn't look quite right either, although by the end of her film life she didn't really look herself, anyway, bless her, but Han Solo, however, looks like nobody in the entire SW universe.

With a simple indication I can prove this is for the Star Wars fan – and perhaps not the common passer-by. Poggle the Lesser. Momaw Nadon. Beezer Fortuna. There you go – those are three of the characters you have to find that I have never even heard of. The fan will relish that, however, and the fact that films both old and new are focused on here. This is not easy, this is not a flippant cash-in, and this is not as photo-real as I might have hoped. But it certainly is something the fan will delight in scanning – and scanning, and scanning – for time to come.

I must thank the publishers for my review copy.

Bear in mind, the original Where's Wally has progressed to books you have to colour in as you search. For more pictorial Star Wars, there is Star Wars: Galactic Atlas by Emil Fortune and Tim McDonagh.

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