Chat corner 153: Young reader books

[annathecrow]

Welcome to the Monday chat corner!

The topic for this week are "young reader" Star Wars books. There's no convenient list of "children books" on Wookieepedia (that I know of), but you can filter them out on the timelines of Legends media and Canon media, here's all the Golden Books (there have been Scratch and Sniff SW books???), and here's a list of Disney canon young-reader novels.

Have you read a SW book as a kid? Have you bought one for your own kids or a relative? Which SW stories do you think are a great children book material, and which definitely aren't? Including fanfic - I mean, the porn is obviously off the table, but some of the more original AUs...

Comments

[atamascolily]

Oh man, this is giving me flashbacks to the Young Jedi Knights and Junior Jedi Knights series from Legends, which were basically "Luke Skywalker is the best uncle", "wow, things keep happening to these kids" and "Yavin 4 is a dangerous place, actually". I enjoyed them when they came out, and I was delighted to see that they still hold up pretty well when I re-read them a few years ago.

The tag line for the Young Jedi Knights series--"When the Galactic Empire died, they were born—a new hope for the New Republic"--gives me chills every time. My favorite volume is Lightsabers, which deals with Jacen, Jaina, and their friends constructing their own lightsabers, followed by Shadow Academy, which introduces a rival school for dark Jedi run by one of Luke's former students.

[jaded_of_mara]

my school library was just underfunded enough that it had old copies of the junior jedi knights books, and new copies of the jedi apprentice and jedi quest books. my true adult white whale books are the ones with like, monochromatic overlay photos of each OT cast member as their covers - I don't remember the titles but they had a huge influence on me as a kid. i also got a box set of the luke, obi-wan and darth vader books that came with a (tiny) darth vader poster!

then i found the star wars section at our local used book store, which had the thicker novels (my first was the hutt gambit by ac crispin (no i dr why i started with book 2)), and i was hooked.