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From what scares Darth Vader to mixing Jabba’s slime
at home, it’s all here in these fantastic books!

Can You

Scare

a Sith

Lord?

Get Spooked by
Are You Scared,
Darth Vader?

Darth Vader is one of the
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most famous movie villains
interviews
of all time, and has kept author
himself busy terrifying the Adam Rex on
galaxy for more than 40 page 28
years. So is there anything
that could possibly frighten
such a total bad guy?
Not much, it turns out,
and that’s the ingenious
hook for Adam Rex’s wildly
entertaining pitcure book
Are You Scared, Darth
Vader? It’s midnight under
a full moon when this tale
begins, but such an eerie
setting can’t raise Darth
Vader’s blood pressure
even one bit. As monsters,
witches, and ghosts are
dismissed by the Sith
Lord’s deadpan refusals,
one question grows ever author explains. “And of monster sketches towards Smekday, School’s
larger: what is Darth Vader course he’s unimpressed something non-threatening.” First Day of School,
scared of? with the classic monsters, Writer/artist Adam Rex and Frankenstein
“I hit on the idea when and I realized my readers is the author and illustrator Makes a Sandwich.
trying to think about what should be unimpressed, of numerous children’s Are You Scared, Darth
Vader is afraid of,” the New too—Vader’s the headliner! picture books, including Vader? is on sale now from
York Times-bestselling So I spent time nudging my The True Meaning of Disney Lucasfi lm Press.

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