Return of the Jedi: Wicket Finds a Way: An Ewok Adventure

Wicket Finds a Way

Author: Melinda Luke

Illustrator: Pat Paris

Medium: Picture book

Publication Date: May 1984

Timeline Placement: 1 BBY

 

It's winter on Endor. Wicket goes to see Logray and asks the old medicine man if he can become his new apprentice. Apparently he didn't read The Adventures of Teebo or else he'd know that Logray already has an apprentice. Rather than tell him this, though, Logray just tells Wicket that he's too impetuous and sends him on his way. Later, Wicket sees Logray visiting his friend Latara, a young female Ewok. Latara has come down with some illness and Logray requires a fuzzynettle plant to make a healing potion for her. Fuzzynettles only grow on the far side of the forest, and it's too dark, cold, and snowy to venture that far tonight. The adults plan to set out in the morning, but Wicket wants to prove himself and help his friend, so he rides his pet bordok, Baga, out into the night.

Wicket and Baga soon wander off the snow-covered path and become lost in the woods, but Wicket realizes that he can navigate by the stars to find his way home. No longer concerned with being lost in the woods and freezing to death, he continues on, retrieves the fuzzynettles, and makes it back just as the adults are getting ready to leave. Logray makes the potion and Latara is completely healed. Logray confesses that he may have been the impetuous one, for Wicket has demonstrated the most important quality of a medicine man: a deep love and caring for his patients. He then takes Wicket on as his apprentice. Gee I hope Teebo won't be offended by that, but maybe he's too busy tripping balls to care.

Very short and completely fine. Does not fit well with the continuity of either the earlier Ewoks books or the subsequent comics but whatever.