Star Wars Battle Cries: Creatures vs. Aliens: Sounds from the Showdown

by Pablo Hidalgo, Scott Park (Illustrator)

Overview

Star Wars Battle Cries: Creatures vs. Aliens is an interactive sound book that prompts imaginative play with realistic Star Wars sounds. Can a Wookiee defeat a Sarlacc? Would a band of Ewoks defeat a Wampa?

With bold, original illustrations, each spread lets readers delve into infographic-style facts about each character. Then pit one against the other in five epic hypothetical battles, complete with each character's signature sound effect. Who has enough brains, brawn, or cunning to win? Decide for yourself! 
 
One-on-one battles include:

• Tusken Raider vs. Tauntaun
• Geonosian vs. Rancor 
• Jawa vs. Rathtar 
• Wookiee vs. Sarlacc
• Ewok vs. Wampa

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780760364048
Publisher:	Epic Ink
Publication date:	04/23/2019
Pages:	24
Product dimensions:	9.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range:	6 - 8 Years

About the Author

A lifelong Star Wars fan and recognized expert on the depth and history of the saga, Pablo Hidalgo started writing professionally on the subject in 1995, penning articles for the original Star Wars role-playing game from West End Games. In 2000, he became a full-time Star Wars authority at Lucasfilm, joining the company’s online team as a content developer for the official website. In 2010, he became a Brand Communications Manager for Lucasfilm, ensuring consistency in the expression of the brand across a variety of channels. When Lucasfilm returned to active film production on the Star Wars saga under the leadership of Kathleen Kennedy, Hidalgo moved into the Lucasfilm Story Group as a creative executive working on the development of Star Wars storytelling across all media, including feature films, animated television, video games, novels, comic books, and more. In addition to his numerous published Star Wars works, he has written books about G.I. Joe and Transformers. He lives in San Francisco.

Editorial Reviews

If you’re looking for a fun little book to read with your kids and introduce them to some Star Wars for the first time? You’ve found your gateway book.”
 —TheForce.net

From the Publisher

2019-04-28
To choruses of electronic roars, shrieks, and gabbles, licensed aliens take on licensed beasts.

Along with brief introductions and fighting-skills rating charts, Hidalgo supplies perfunctory scenarios for matchups between a Wookiee and a Sarlacc, a Tusken raider and a tauntaun, and three other pairings—inviting readers to press on designated spots to activate snatches of sound and to pick winners for each dust-up. His descriptions ("These rolling meatballs of teeth and tentacles are considered one of the most dangerous creatures in the galaxy," he says of rathtars) are generally more colorful than Park's recognizable but bland, flattened, cartoony figures. The tinny hoots and calls issuing from the rear cover's tiny speaker are likewise generic, mostly interchangeable, and sound as if they were recorded in a cardboard box. The scenarios and the art are free of explicit gore or violence, but there's a streak of cruelty in evidence, as the Ewoks are sent to saw off a wampa's horn "for a mystical ceremony," and the Geonosian's task is to egg a reluctant rancor out into an arena to fight droids for the purpose of "impressing some visiting Hutts."

The Force is definitely not with this one. (replaceable batteries, on/off switch) (Novelty. 6-8)

Kirkus Reviews