Catch That Pit Droid!
Author: Liza Baker
Illustrator: José Miralles
Medium: Picture book
Publication Date: May 2000
Timeline Placement: 32 BBYNarrated by Watto in first-person present-tense, this book chronicles the wacky misadventures of Anakin Skywalker and his abusive slave-master earlier in the day that Qui-Gon Jinn and the gang encountered him on Tatooine. Watto starts off addressing the reader directly, as if we are a customer in his shop, but this conceit is quickly abandoned as in his ignorance Watto accidentally sets a malfunctioning pit droid off on a rampage across the city of Mos Espa. He and Anakin pursue it as it wreaks havoc, knocking over old Jira's fruit stand, disrupting cafe patrons, and disturbing Jabba the Hutt at the Podracing track. Finally Anakin manages to jump on it from above and deactivate it by hitting its nose. Watto congratulates Anakin and proclaims that he taught him well. The book ends with Qui-Gon, Padmé, Jar Jar Binks, and R2-D2 arriving in the junk shop in search of the part they need to repair their ship. Watto observes that Anakin has a strange look on his face and wonders if the boy senses something about these outlanders.
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| I'm sensing something right now. |
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