Star Wars Is the Force Behind the Children's Chart

The $70.8 million in box-office receipts generated by Revenge of the Sith over the four-day Memorial Day holiday helped make the weekend the second-biggest in box-office history . (But strong ticket sales this weekend?The Longest Yard and Madagascar both opened with $60 million?still didn't bring Hollywood out of its 14-week slump, with receipts now 7% under last year's comparable timetable, year to date.) This Star Wars installment?the last, we're promised?is the first to receive a PG-13 rating from the MPAA, but that hasn't stopped the presumably under-13 crowd from filling George Lucas's over-stuffed coffers. (Who knew there was a LucasBooks books imprint?) A visual dictionary, a novelization, two sticker books and a scrapbook make up the Top Five spots on The Book Standard/Nielsen BookScan Children's Chart for the week ending May 21. (An additional four Star Wars?related titles are in the Top 50 of the same chart.)

1. THE VISUAL DICTIONARY OF STAR WARS, EPISODE III - REVENGE OF THE SITH (DK Publishing, Hardcover, 0756611288)
2. REVENGE OF THE SITH (STAR WARS, EPISODE III - JR. NOVELIZATION), Patricia Wrede (Scholastic, Paperback, 0439139295)
3. STAR WARS, EPISODE III - REVENGE OF THE SITH (STICKER BOOK) (LucasBooks for Young Readers, Paperback, 0375826149)
4. STAR WARS - REVENGE OF THE SITH (ULTIMATE STICKER BOOK), Simon Beecroft (DK Publishing, Paperback, 075661130X)
5. STAR WARS, EPISODE III - REVENGE OF THE SITH (SCRAPBOOK), Ryder Windham (LucasBooks for Young Readers, Paperback, 0375826114)