Star Wars Epic Yarns: The Empire Strikes Back - Hardcover

Wang, Jack; Wang, Holman

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1452134995 ISBN 13: 9781452134994

Publisher: Chronicle Books, 2015

Synopsis

Share your love of Star Wars with your baby! In twelve needle-felted scenes and twelve child-friendly words, rediscover the iconic moments you know and love. Simple words, sturdy pages, and an epic story make these books the perfect vehicle for early learning at lightspeed. Jedi apprentices and little princesses alike will delight in this (heart)felt retelling of the Star Wars trilogy made just for them!

In The Empire Strikes Back, Luke meets the wise teacher Yoda, Han Solo encounters an old friend, and lightsabers clash during a duel in the dark. It's a Star Wars primer unlike any other in the galaxy! © and TM Lucasfilm Ltd.

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About this title

From the Author:

Star Wars Epic Yarns is a new board book series abridging each movie in the original trilogy in just 12 words and 12 needle-felted images. The series is fun for anyone of any age!

For the teething set, the books serve as true word primers, since each felt image is paired with a toddler-friendly word such as "sister", "run", "boy", "swing", "fly" or "stop". Because the books trace the main narrative arc of each movie, as children get older, the books become storytelling vehicles. Parents (and kids!) can elaborate on the Star Wars characters and plotlines (and don't be afraid to throw in your best Yoda, Darth Vader or Chewbacca imitation). Even if you're not entirely familiar with the original Star Wars movies, there's no "wrong" way to read Star Wars Epic Yarns. You or your child can just make up the story! The point is to make the reading experience fun and exciting. And finally, for teens and adults, Star Wars Epic Yarns serves as a humorous and ironic piece of fan memorabilia, perfect for the coffee table to stir up nostalgia for movie-going days gone by.

The primary technique for making the figures in Star Wars Epic Yarns is needle felting, which is essentially sculpting with wool. This is a painstaking process which involves stabbing loose wool thousands of times with a specialized barbed needle. This entangles the wool fibers, making the wool firmer and firmer. It took us nearly a year to create all the Star Wars figures and spaceships in wool, build all the scale-model sets, and do all the in-studio or on location photography. We even flew to California and Arizona to find real desert to recreate the scenes on Tatooine! As lifelong Star Wars fans, it was important to us to get the books just right. Think of Star Wars Epic Yarns as the ultimate, year-long craft project! It was definitely a labor of love.

We hope you have as much fun reading and sharing the books as we had in making them. And May the Felt be with you!

~ Jack and Holman

About the Author:

Jack and Holman Wang are twin brothers who grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia, where Holman still lives. As well as being the creators of the Cozy Classics board books, Jack is a professor of writing at Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York, and Holman, a former lawyer, is an artist and author.

About this edition

• Publisher: Chronicle Books
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1452134995
• ISBN 13: 9781452134994
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 24