Star Wars: The Clone Wars: The Visual Guide

Star Wars: The Clone Wars: The Visual Guide (UK / US) is slightly different from the recent DK Star Wars and Indiana Jones books. For a start it is a slightly different shape, wider and less tall, it is also clearly aimed at a younger audience. What isn't different is the feel of quality, the nice hefty hardback feel and the big full page pictures.

Often these guide books, although nice to hold and look at, offer little new information. With The Clone Wars its all new as the film hasn't even been released yet. There are pages on all the main characters, including Clones and Droids, and new planets and battles. I assume that this book covers just the film and not the following TV series, but we'll only know that once the TV series starts. The fonts are big and colourful, lots of diagrams and pictures, and not too many big chunks of text, all of which makes it ideal for kids.

My only complaint is that the full page images don't seem very crisp, presumably because they are blown up from the digital film stock? It's slightly dissapointing.

But that doesn't stop this being a great book for younger readers, who are presumably going to love the new Clone Wars series with it's cartoon colour and action.