title: DK Readers L1: Star Wars: Tatooine Adventures (DK Readers Level 1)
author:  Clare Hibbert 
description: <b>Clare Hibbert</b> is a childrens book author specializing in stories for beginning and early readers. Her published works include <i>I'm HappyAnd Other Fun Feelings, When I Grow Up: Builder</i>, <i>Lets Eat Breakfast</i>, <i>Star Wars: Clone Troopers in Action</i>, <i>Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Jedi Heroes</i>, and <i>Indiana Jones: Traps and Snares.</i>
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  # ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  
  
  
  
  
  I began developing the story that is _Kenobi_ in 2006, when Jeremy Barlow,
  then my comics editor at Dark Horse, challenged me to
  
  
  write something that hadn’t been done as yet: _Star Wars_ as a western. Fifty
  pages of notes later, I had a story better suited for a prose
  
  
  novel than a graphic novel, and so I shelved the project until the opportunity
  arose.
  
  
  It did in 2012, thanks to editors Shelly Shapiro and Frank Parisi.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Much has been written about life on Tatooine; somewhat less about Ben Kenobi’s
  time
  
  
  of exile. All those works were helpful, and I am appreciative to their
  authors.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  My appreciation goes to Erich Schoeneweiss, Keith Clayton, and everyone at Del
  Rey,
  
  
  and to Jennifer Heddle, Pablo Hidalgo, and Leland Chee at Lucasfilm.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Finally, my thanks go to my wife and proofreader Meredith Miller, proofreader
  Brent
  
  
  Frankenhoff, and equestrian adviser Beth Kinnane. (There aren’t any horses on
  Tatooine,
  
  
  but there are saddles!)
  
  