Vader’s Little Princess is short but sweet, and I recommend it to all fans of Star Wars and veterans of child-raising everywhere. That said, the artwork was adorable and I generally enjoyed the book.

There were a couple good zingers poking fun at Episodes I-III, so that was fun to see. I thought some of the humor fell flat or wasn’t really all that humorous at all. The only issue I have with this book is that the humor is somewhat less than in the previous book. Also like it’s predecessor, Vader’s Little Princess is fairly short and ends far too soon. Like in it’s predecessor, Brown offers a collection of humorous situations by combining (and sometimes changing) lines from the films with typical parent-child relationships. This time, we get to see Princess Leia at various ages interacting with her daddy, Darth Vader (sorry to spoil this for those 10-20 people who haven’t seen the original Star Wars series). Vader’s Little Princess by Jeffrey Brown is a sequel of sorts to his previous Darth Vader and Son which I reviewed back in February 2013. Jeffrey was spot on with his final cover design (featured at the top of the post), which shows Leia as an innocent child playing tea with Vader (front cover) and a rebellious teen being scolded by Vader for what she is wearing (back cover).Cover of “Vader’s Little Princess” by Jeffrey Brown. We were looking for something with a sense of affectionate connection that’s also true to the characters and their relationship as Jeff imagines it inside the book, but wouldn’t overemphasize a single aspect (we love Vader as a nervous dad faced with the prospect of Leia dating Han Solo, for instance, but that seemed to us to overemphasize that particular aspect a bit much for the cover.) Jeff developed more ideas, some from panels in the book, some just to try out for cover potential-happily, anything we fell in love with that wasn’t quite right for the cover found a home inside the book if it wasn’t already represented. For the front and back cover illustrations, Jeffrey wanted to reflect the trials of fatherhood that Vader would have experienced with his daughter Princess Leia, if he were actually a good father. The book is a sequel to Darth Vader and Son. Chronicle Books has released the front and back cover design process for Vader’s Little Princess, an upcoming Star Wars themed children’s book by cartoonist and author Jeffrey Brown.

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