{"id":48548,"date":"2015-05-04T13:31:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-04T03:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.booktopia.com.au\/?p=48548"},"modified":"2016-03-01T09:23:24","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T23:23:24","slug":"may-the-fourth-be-with-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/2015\/05\/04\/may-the-fourth-be-with-you\/","title":{"rendered":"May The Fourth Be With You!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"May-The-4th-Be-With-You-Star-Wars-Day-2011-2012-yoda-fluro-lightsaber-banner-May-The-Fourth-Be-With-you-2013\"<\/p>\n

If you speak Wookiee, pilot a TIE fighter or dream of vacationing in Cloud City, today is a very special day for you.<\/p>\n

Happy Star Wars Day!<\/p>\n

To celebrate, we’ve picked out some of our favourite Star Wars titles to excite your Midichlorians.<\/p>\n

On this day of days, May the Fourth be with you, gentle Jedi…<\/p>\n

\"star-wars-epic-yarns\"<\/a>STAR WARS EPIC YARNS<\/em><\/h3>\n

By Jack Wang, Holman Wang<\/h3>\n

Jedi apprentices and little princesses will delight in this (heart)felt retelling of the Star Wars saga. And so will Star Wars fans of any age! The series launches with the original trilogy, and every word counts in these small but perfectly formed yarns …read more<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Click here for more details<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"star-wars\"<\/a>STAR WARS : BUILD DARTH VADER<\/em><\/h3>\n

By Benjamin Harper<\/h3>\n

With specialty printing, sounds, and highly detailed model, Star Wars: Build Darth Vader brings the most menacing Sith Lord to life! The kit includes ten template sheets with die-cut pieces to build a 30cm model, a paperback book, an instruction booklet, and three audio tracks playing authentic Darth Vader sounds …read more<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Click here for more details<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"william-shakespeare-s-the-phantom-menace\"<\/a>WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S THE PHANTOM MENACE<\/em><\/h3>\n

By Ian Doescher<\/h3>\n

The popular, NYT best-selling Elizabethan\/sci-fi mashup series continues, with a Shakespearean take on the first Star Wars prequel, The Phantom Menace. When the best-selling William Shakespeare’s Star Wars presented the classic George Lucas film in the form of an Elizabethan drama, the results blew the minds of Star Wars fans and Shakespeare buffs alike …read more<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Click here to see William Shakespeare’s Star Wars series<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"lego-star-wars-mighty-minifigures-ultimate-sticker-collection\"<\/a>DK : LEGO STAR WARS MIGHTY MINIFIGURES ULTIMATE STICKER COLLECTION<\/em><\/h3>\n

Ultimate Sticker Collection: LEGO Star Wars : Mighty Minifigures<\/em> is packed with the latest 2015 LEGO Star Wars sets and minifigures. The easy-to-peel stickers can be reused. Join the minifigures in the epic battle between good and evil that dominates the LEGO Star Wars galaxy …read more<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Click here for more details<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"the-star-wars-cookbook-ice-sabers\"<\/a>THE STAR WARS COOKBOOk – ICE SABERS<\/em><\/h3>\n

by Lara Morris Starr<\/h3>\n

Create thirty sweet, chilled treats in this Star Wars-themed cooking kit, from Mos Icely and Qui-Gon Gingerbread Ice Cream Sandwiches to Frozen Hoth Chocolate.<\/p>\n

Or freeze up light saber-inspired ice pops using the three light saber ice pop moulds included in the kit. With so many easy-to-make recipes for delightful treats, this galactic cookbook will appeal to any Jedi appetite.<\/p>\n

Click here for more details<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"the-making-of-star-wars\"<\/a>THE MAKING OF STAR WARS<\/em><\/h3>\n

by\u00a0J. W. Rinzler, Peter Jackson (Foreword by)<\/h3>\n

George Lucas spent nearly ten years bringing his dream project to life: a ground-breaking space fantasy movie. It would be a swashbuckling sci-fi saga inspired by vintage Flash Gordon serials, classic American westerns, and mythological heroes. Its original title: The Star Wars. The rest is history …read more<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Click here for more details<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"star-wars<\/a>STAR WARS : LORD OF THE SITH<\/em><\/h3>\n

by Paul S. Kemp<\/h3>\n

When the Emperor and his notorious apprentice, Darth Vader, find themselves stranded in the middle of insurgent action on an inhospitable planet, they must rely on each other, the Force, and their own ruthlessness to prevail.<\/p>\n

“It appears things are as you suspected, Lord Vader. We are indeed hunted.” ….read more<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Click here for more details<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"the<\/a>THE STAR WARS<\/em><\/h3>\n

by Jw Rinzler, Mike Mayhew (Illustrator), Rain Beredo (Illustrator), Nick Runge (Illustrator), Michael Heisler (Illustrator)<\/h3>\n

Before Star Wars<\/em>, there was The Star Wars<\/em>! This is the hardcover collection of the official adaptation of George Lucas’s rough-draft screenplay for what would become Star Wars<\/em>, the film that changed motion pictures and the world. You’ll see familiar characters and places–but not all is the same in this long-ago and faraway galaxy …read more
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Click here for more details<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"star-wars-a-galactic-pop-up-adventure-limited-edition-\"<\/a>STAR WARS : A GALACTIC POP-UP ADVENTURE (Limited Edition)<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n

by\u00a0Matthew Reinhart, Lucasfilm<\/h3>\n

A fabulous limited edition of the brand-new explosive, interactive, pop-off-the-page STAR WARS: A POP-UP GALAXY!<\/p>\n

Matthew Reinhart has created another spectacular limited edition pop-up book for George Lucas’s epic STAR WARS movies.<\/p>\n

Click here for more details<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"star-wars-frames-2-x-hardcover-books-in-1-x-boxed-set\"<\/a>STAR WARS – FRAMES : 2 x HARDCOVER BOOKS IN 1 x BOXED SET<\/em><\/h3>\n

by George Lucas, Lucasfilm Animation, Guillermo del Toro (Illustrator)<\/h3>\n

After George Lucas finished work on 2005’s Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith<\/a><\/em>, he wanted to look back on the now-completed Star Wars Saga through an entirely new point-of-view: isolating stills, or frames, from each of the six Star Wars films, focusing on them intensely as works of photography and design and reproducing them in a book.<\/p>\n

Click here for more details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you speak Wookiee, pilot a TIE fighter or dream of vacationing in Cloud City, today is a very special day for you. Happy Star Wars Day! To celebrate, we’ve picked out some of our favourite Star Wars titles to excite your Midichlorians. On this day of days, May the Fourth be with you, gentle Jedi… STAR WARS EPIC YARNS By Jack Wang, Holman Wang Jedi apprentices and little princesses will delight in this (heart)felt retelling of the Star Wars saga. And so will Star Wars fans of any age! The series launches with the original trilogy, and every word counts in these small but perfectly formed yarns …read more Click here for more details STAR WARS : BUILD DARTH VADER By Benjamin Harper With specialty printing, sounds, and highly detailed model, Star Wars: Build Darth Vader brings the most menacing Sith Lord to life! The kit includes ten template sheets with die-cut pieces to build a 30cm model, a paperback book, an instruction booklet, and three audio tracks playing authentic Darth Vader sounds …read more Click here for more details WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S THE PHANTOM MENACE By Ian Doescher The popular, NYT best-selling Elizabethan\/sci-fi mashup series continues, with a Shakespearean…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[4986],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48548"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55911,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48548\/revisions\/55911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}