This World Book Day, Star Wars fans will be happy to find that there’s a special Star Wars World Book Day title that you can buy with your World Book Day token from school!
There are also lots of other brilliant Star Wars themed books, so if your kids are interested in Star Wars then this is a great way to draw them into reading. With World Book Day coming up this week, I’m sharing a super easy last minute Star Wars costume idea, as well as showing you some of the Star Wars books that we’ve been trying – and one lucky winner will win a set of 3 Star Wars Adventures in Wild Space books for their family.
The world book day title, The Escape: A World Book Day title (Star Wars: Adventures in Wild Space) is a slightly shorter chapter book with 6 chapters, introducing the characters Lina and Milo who feature in the Adventures in Wild Space series. There’s also a new Droid and a new villain! I think it’s great that these books bring out a new story and new characters, rather than simply being a re-telling of the stories in the previous movies.
You can swap your World Book Day token for the Star Wars Book at any book shop, or order it online via the link above for just £1.
If your child enjoys the world book day special book, the other longer books available in the series are:
The Nest (Star Wars: Adventures in Wild Space)
The Snare (Star Wars: Adventures in Wild Space)
All three of these books are set in the time between Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith and Episode IV: A New Hope.
These books are great for fairly confident readers of around 7 years old and above. The books do have a few pictures interspersed to break up the text, and are great for this age group as they not too challenging but also not babyish at all.
Younger children can also enjoy these as a bed time story with mum or dad reading a chapter or two to them each day and hopefully it will fuel their interest so that they will be keen to get reading books like these as soon as they are able!
We also received a couple of great creative and fun books that are suitable for all ages:
Star Wars: The Force Awakens Colouring Book
Star Wars: Rebellion Tin (Star Wars tin 1)
These colouring and activity books are always a big hit in our house, especially with my 6 year old who has got through so many Star Wars colouring books in the last year! This new Star Wars colouring book also includes new characters and ships, which is great.
I find these type of books always make good presents too, especially the tin set which is really lovely.
Last Minute Costume Inspiration
We used a Star Wars hoodie that we already had, and a adapted it into a full Darth Vader costume which R loves to wear and play pretend. With the addition of black dress up trousers which we borrowed from another ninja costume (if you don’t have a pair of these, use black joggers!) and of course a light sabre, the hoodie easily transformed into a full on Star Wars costume. If you don’t have a ready made Star Wars hoodie, you could use a black hoodie and sew or stick on some of the details for the same effect and combine it with face paint or a mask to complete the costume.
Giveaway
For your chance to be the lucky winner of a set of 3 Star Wars: Adventures in Wild Space books, enter via the Gleam widget below.
Good luck!
For another chance to win, make sure to enter with Over 40 and a mum to one tomorrow, as she will be continuing on this Star Wars World Book Day blog tour!
Competition and post sponsored by Egmont Publishing. Affiliate links included
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I made a Luke Skywalker outfit for my son using his karate uniform and added extras!
I made my son a doth vador outfit using a black sheet, some tin foil and some junk modelling bits x
I made a darth vadar outfit out of an old black sheet, some tin foil and some junk modelling bit to complete it x
The books look fab! My boys have starwars costumes x
We attempted to make a stormtrooper costume for a party, 3 days and lots of stress later I just bought one!
my son disappeared to make a stormtrooper outfit and came downstairs in my best white blouse!!!
My nephew made a stormtrooper mask with a bit of paper and elastic to hold it on his head. Creativity at its best.
I haven’t made any Star Wars costumes but we’ve bought my son an Ezra Bridger outfit and a Rebel Pilot outfit.
The books look great
These books are great – we’re a family of Star Wars fans so they would be well loved here!!
These books look great for my star wars obsessed young jedi.
I’ve never made any star wars costumes, I wouldn’t know where to start
they look great books
Fabulous books to keep little star war fans imagination busy.
not made any as yet but i have the official white dress of leias
These look great, love star wars
These look great. My son went dressed as Luke Skywalker for book day last year 🙂
looks fab fingers crossed x
we love all things star wars and these books look great. Not sure my son would be brave enough to go dressed as darth vadar though!
The books sound incredible. We soak up anything Star Wars in our house like a galactic sponge 😉 Unfortunately costume wise the best we’ve come up with is Jedi cloaks using old blankets…he..he! x
These books look great, my son would love them!
I bought my brother a Darth Vader costume as a kid. He’s never forgotten it.
These books looks really good.
Grandson would love the books, have never made a costume
I don’t have a costume or books unfortunately, but I’d love to win this fab prize x
these books look great and though I will do at some point very soon, I’ve never made a star wars costume!!
I made a Daft Vader outfit for my nephew
My grandson would love these awesome books x
These books look great. My son would really love them.
the books look amazing
The books look great! I’ve never made a Star Wars costume, but we have got a very cool Darth Vader potato head at home 🙂
The doodle books look great
The Doodle books look a lot of fun x
The books look great. My little girl really wants a Darth Vadar Princess Dress. I think I’ll have to concoct one somehow for her birthday!
my nephew loves the books
My daughter loves star wars, she has been introduced to it by her dad and grandad and she would love to add these to her growing book collection x
My nephew would love these books – would keep him entertained for ages!
My nephew would love these books
love them books we love star wars in this house, I named my son after Luke Skywaker and put together a jedi costume for him to wear
The books look great! My son loves dressing up as Obi Wan
we made a darth vader costume that is pretty cool
we made Leia Hair out of bagels stuck on a headband! and made an outfit from an old sheet – my daughter won the prize for best outfit !!
My boys have got quite a lot of Star Wars books, they love them
would be lovely for my nephews, they loved the film
My nephew loves the books and dressed as a Stormtrooper last Halloween.
My nephews would love this! The books look great
I love reading books
my son would enjoy reading the books. He has become a fan since watching the star wars film
My husband made sure our four kids were all Star Wars fans, I like the early films, but not the later ones! My youngest daughter loves the Ewoks though, so we did try to make her up as an Ewok for May the 4th (Star Wars Day!) and it looked awful lol. She looked like a ball of fluff! This would be great!xxx
books to treasure and share x
my son kian has many star wars costumes and has loves star wars for many tears.he has darth vader and luke skywalker costumes and he has a storm trooper one as well
the books look great,my son would love them
read comic books
The books look great xx
My kids would love the books, they are obsessed!
My son would love these books.
Books look great!
I havent made any star wars costumes however I did once dress up as a Klingon – looking back it prob wasn’t the best costume for a massive school party haha noone knew who I was or what I was everyone else was in 80s or cat costumes
love doodling love star wars double like