A must for any Star Wars fan! The illustrations are gorgeous.

Read the abridged version, cute stories for kids, love the artwork.

It really trivializes a sophisticated story about a trade dispute. Otherwise entertaining for my 3 year old.

Major scenes from the Star Wars prequels, original trilogy, and The Force Awakens are adapted into a series of short, child appropriate stories. There are no spoilers for any of the movies - no fathers are revealed - so this is a great introduction to star wars to interest your child before they are old enough to appreciate the films.

These are merely kid-friendly adaptations of scenes from the Star Wars movies...but with awesome artwork!

I don't usually rate kids books...but I do usually rate Star Wars books, so...My kindergartners would definitely give this 5 stars. It has 1 story each from Episodes I-III, and 2 stories each from Episodes IV-VII. It's all done in a very kid-friendly level, although Jabba's Palace and the Rathtars are kind of scary. You won't see anybody's hand getting chopped off here.Anyway, it's a good way to induct your kids into the cult of Star Wars even if they're too young to see the whole movies. Partic...

Need a kid-friendly Star Wars book that has five minute long stories recapping episodes I through VII? This delivers what it promises. The Star Wars stories are one of many interests my son and I share, so naturally he wanted this book and I have read him a few each night over the five evenings. The art is cartoony, but appropriate and everything is well done in capturing the gist of the movies while creating five minute snapshots of stories. Not for adult consumption by die hard fans, but for t...

2021 Harper's dad loves Star Wars, so we are getting her started early on loving it, too!

This collection is pretty entertaining. It has stories from all the movies through Force Awakens. They're simplified stories and are a pretty good intro to Star Wars. I really love the art in these. Overall I really liked this, hence the four stars. It's not perfect though. Spoilers: (view spoiler)[First gripe: There's a story with Jabba the Hutt where Lando just appears to save them despite the fact that he's not mentioned anywhere else before this in the book. So random character saves the day...

3.5 stars. I wish this would have had some original stories in it, but it's still really cute.

The stories go from Episode I all the way through to VII in chronological order, telling a couple of stories from each movie. The stories are simplified for small children, but not to the point of being overly saccharine, and the art is fun: rather in the style of the Clone Wars cartoons.

This review was originally written for The Baby Bookworm. Visit us for new picture books reviews daily!Hello, friends! Our book today is 5-Minute Star Wars Stories by Disney-Lucasfilm, a fantastic storybook anthology of tales from the Star Wars universe.While the storybook features eleven stories in total, drawn from the Star Wars cinematic films I-VII, we read two for the purposes of this review. “Escape From Darth Vader” follows the capture of Leia’s ship by Darth Vader, and her quick thinking...

I love these 5-minute Star Wars books. I honestly think my kids lump all of them together and can't piece the timeline together and these stories are in a format that kid's can understand and stay interested in. The pictures are really good and the the stories have caused more dialogue between us about the films and I think this book and its sequel have cause more interest in the Star Wars universe. I have to recommend these to parents as they will really help your kiddo understand what there is...

The stories were decent, although extremely minimal. Nonetheless, had fun reading them with my boys. They were into it.

I gave this book a 4 star because there is many stories and not just one story, a thing it could be fixed on is that it has more pictures than words. I would recommend this book to people who like Star Wars and Star Trek.

A pretty darn good re-cap for anyone who needs the basic plot points and doesn't want to sit through hours of pod racing!

Very short stories, written simply, highlighting a particular scene or battle from the films. There's one story each from the prequels, and two stories each from the OT and Force Awakens. For Phantom Menace the story is the podrace. For A New Hope, it's Leia sending the plans away with R2 and Luke firing the final shot against the Death Star. The stories are fun, and the illustrations are very cute. Lots of original dialog is used and I'm amazed how seamlessly it fits into the writing style. Sin...

“5-Minute Star Wars Stories” is a lovely book to use as an introduction to the sci-fi genre. This book compiles short stories (that, surprise, take about five minutes to read) that highlight important scenes throughout the Skywalker Saga of Star Wars movies. The book begins with the depiction of a young Anakin’s most important pod race against his rival, Sebulba. The events of this scene are shown through the eyes of Anakin, who is trying to win the race in order to help his friends repair their...

I work part time as an English teacher for Japanese kids, and this is one of the books we give to kids to read as homework. It's only 8800 words long and uses basic, simple English. The large illustrations and few words make it easy and fun for kids to read. In the class I teach, this book would be given to students who have been studying English for about 3 years.I only read it because 1. I was bored, 2. I love Star Wars, and 3. It's good to review the books we hand out.So rating-wise I would g...

It's fine. I don't love the style -- "Luke was so happy his friend had joined the fight after all." -- but my 6yo is enraptured and read them to himself on the bus commuting to school. Every day. For more than a month.What, I'm going to complain about that? Hardly. It can't be high literature all the time. We all deserve to keep a mental armest in the mix. Anyway. Five minutes for a grown up is about fifteen for him, and these are building his endurance. That's not nothing. It's fine. Just don't...