Star Wars The Force Awakens Stickerscapes

Brand new from DK's Ultimate Sticker Collection comes Star Wars: The Force Awakens Stickerscapes

This book is a visual feast of images in the form of “over 1000 stickers” from the upcoming film Star Wars: The Force Awakens.  Like previous DK Star Wars sticker books it includes many, many different stickers of varying sizes depicting characters, aliens, vehicles and droids. There are many doubles of stickers, so you can put one in the stickerscape scenes & still keep one in the book, etc.

This collection focuses only on The Force Awakens, and possibly only a fraction of it. As with most of the toys and other products available since Force Friday (Sept. 4), the focus is on new characters Rey, Poe, Finn, BB-8, Kylo Ren and Captain Phasma. “Legacy” characters Chewbacca, C-3PO & R2-D2 are also here, but nowhere to be seen are Luke, Leia or Han. Chewbacca is the only alien here representing a movie that will likely be FULL of alien species, so it’s safe to say this book won’t spoil too much of the movie.

Many of the images are photos or very realistic digital images but there are also some fun graphic images too. Some of those would (and probably will) make great T-shirts.

My only complaint would be the provided backgrounds - the “stickerscapes”- to create your scenes. The art is pretty unimaginative there. In a way it has a retro comic feel or even looks more like old Colorforms backgrounds, but I would’ve preferred a photo especially considering so many of the stickers are photos.

Other than that The Force Awakens Stickerscapes is a beautiful collection of images from the upcoming movie and should give keen-eyed fans of any age PLENTY to enjoy and speculate about.

Read, You Must: Moving Target - A Princess Leia Adventure

Are you ready for the Journey to The Force Awakens?

Disney Book Group and Lucasfilm Press have released three all-new middle-grade hardcover novels featuring some of the biggest names in the Star Wars saga! Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, and Han Solo and Chewbacca get their own tales in this set, part of a number of new books published as Journey to The Force Awakens. Smuggler’s Run, Weapon of a Jedi and Moving Target are adventures that take place between the events of the original trilogy movies. 

The three books also contain scenes set just before the events of The Force Awakens, so they each provide little hints and suggestions of what could be in the upcoming movie!

Cecil Castellucci

Moving Target: A Princess Leia Adventure by Cecil Castellucci and Jason Fry is an enjoyable adventure for Star Wars fans of almost any age and an important part of Leia’s history. Moving Target is the story of Leia leading a strategic mission to distract the Empire while the Rebel Alliance secretly prepares to attack the 2^nd Death Star at Endor. In other words it takes place between the movies The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi.

   

While on her mission Leia must grapple with some incredibly serious issues: is acceptable to sacrifice lives in order to potentially save millions from the Emperor’s wrath? What if those sacrificing don’t even know that they’re the ones being sacrificed? Horrible questions indeed but this is wartime and there are no easy answers. Meanwhile also on her mind is Han Solo – recently frozen and last seen taken away by the bounty hunter Boba Fett.

Jason Fry

Leia certainly doesn’t have time to dwell on thoughts of Han - she has important and sometimes awful tasks ahead on her mission. There is romance in Moving Target, but not where you might expect.

Moving Target focuses equally on Leia the diplomatic leader as well as Leia the Rebel action hero. When Leia and her small crew of varying aliens aren’t fleeing Imperials they’re being eaten alive by creepy crawlies in dark caverns. Pretty gross stuff here! Leia needs to switch gears quickly though as she is the face of the Rebellion to many and must be the negotiator for her crew in many ways.

Nien Nunb Returns!

The story takes its time to get to the action but certainly picks up steam mid-way! Leia’s team members each provide interesting and funny exchanges during the mission. For longtime Star Wars fans the inclusion of Nien Nunb (famously Lando’s Millennium Falcon co-pilot in Return of the Jedi) is especially a treat.

Speaking of humour, there is one scene that just seemed a bit too silly - or just not very Star Wars-y - where Leia and crew have to disguise themselves as tourists wearing T-shirts and shorts. It felt too “earthy” and not space-fantasy.

That one scene aside, Moving Target is a fun adventure that isn’t afraid to take time for the bigger issues in the Galaxy. Both authors are skilled at writing smart, engaging stories for young readers.

For those of you hungry for hints of the upcoming movie there’s the prologue and epilogue which take place right before The Force Awakens, some 30 years after the Ewoks joined the fight. These opening and closing scenes provide a few hints and peeks at what might be coming in the new movie. Leia’s role in the Resistance is clearly identified and several characters who may be in the movie are introduced. Don’t expect major spoilers but there are moments that make you wonder what's coming!

240 pages. Recommended for ages 10 - 14. 

Also by the authors Cecil Castellucci & Jason Fry: