Editors of Phoenix International Publications

review of
Star Wars Sound Storybook Treasury
by tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE - December 20, 2021

I 1st saw "Star Wars" in a movie theater when it came out in 1977. This was before multiplexes so it was BIG SCREEN. I was tripping on LSD & I loved it. I saw it again when I was 'sober' (or, at least, not tripping) soon thereafter & hated it. I've since stuck closer to the latter judgment. Despite that, how cd I resist picking up this bk at a thrift store? It has 39 sounds activated by pressing buttons w/ images on them. I love sound effects so I basically got this to use as a (M)Usical instrument.

The 3 stories included in the bk are written for kids in a very simple style w/ the text interspersed w/ the sound effects buttons' images to tell the reader when to press them for the sounds to add to the narration. I wish I cd afford to publish a bk like this. &/OR I wish that there were more bks like this based on subjects of more interest to me such as 20th century avant-garde classical music. THAT wd be truly fantastic. Even a sci-fi bk other than Star Wars, Star Trek, & Dune wd be nice - something by Philip K. Dick might even sell. Who knows? Maybe there's already something out there that I don't know about.. but I doubt it. Star Wars has a level of popularity that can support such impressive production but I doubt that very much else wd - maybe a bk about the Steelers w/ the voices of famous football players. Dunno.

Things like this didn't exist when I was a child, we made bone flutes out of the remains of trapped animals & competing humans. Thinking about that, I decided to shop for a bk like this that might come w/ a more sanitary femur-shaped breath controller or drum stick. I didn't find anything like that but I did find a slew of other interactive sound bks that I might be able to use as an instrument so I bought one about animals w/ 27 sound buttons. I was going to get one that claimed to have over 100 sounds but it only had 20 buttons so I wasn't quite sure how that wd work. Anyway, it's good for ages 0 to 3 so when I die I reckon I'll be back to 0 again so maybe I can take this w/ me.… (més)