I had been thinking about compiling a list of “Great Moments in Origami Fiction.”

It would have included, for instance, Gaff’s origami in Blade Runner which may be the key to understanding the movie or the time Curious George blew his newspaper delivery job by folding all the newspaper into boats.

But someone beat me to it:

http://www.origamisources.com/origami_sightings_main.htm

(Note: The site is not completly consolidated. There are two seperate pages for kids’ books, for instance.)

This site has considerably more Origami Fiction moments than I would have come up with .. and I was very happy to see that they’ve added “The Strange Case of Origami Yoda.”

They missed “The Qwikpick Adventure Society,” however, which has a chapter entitled “The Origami Pegasus Disaster” and includes a scan of the deformed Pegasus.

You know Boni Ashburn, right? She’s another Abrams author and has this beautiful book coming out this spring:

Well, here’s an Origami Yoda made by her son, Henry. I like those crinkly ears!

Henry’s the son of another Abrams’ author, Boni Ashburn! Her new book, Over at The Castle, is coming out this spring, to

Not only is The  Star Wars Shop selling “The Strange Case of Origami Yoda,” they’ve currently got a banner ad for it in rotation on the front page. Check it out: http://shop.starwars.com/

Also in the rotation is a BEAUTIFUL jumbo Death Star II wall sticker. Oh, man, I’d love to have one of those up and surround it with small stickers of X-Wings, TIE fighters, a shuttle or two, the Mon Calamari and of course the Millenium Falcon flown by Lando and Niem Numb.

http://shop.starwars.com/catalog/product.xml?topcatID=1300264;product_id=1318410

The cover of Origami Yoda features my own Origami Yoda leaning against a chalkboard that has been doodled and written upon very nicely.

Who is the man behind the chalk? The awesome Jason Rosenstock who usually paints things a lot weirder than chalkboards:

Check out more of his fantastic work at http://www.jasonrosenstock.com

I just learned from my editor that Barnes & Noble stores should have Origami Yoda for sale starting March 5! Hopefully, you’ll be able to find it easily by looking for this nifty book display:

Origami Yoda is on the front page of StarWars.com today, Feb. 1!

http://www.starwars.com

If you’re reading this later, you should still be able to catch him on this page:

http://www.starwars.com/kids/read/news02012010/index.html

StarWars.com is even featuring my How To Fold Yoda video! So grab some paper and head on over!

YA author Dawn Metcalf has posted the nicest piece about “The Strange Case of Origami Yoda” with pictures of home-made Origami Yodas, including this one which I think was made by her nephew.

You can read the whole post at: http://dawn-metcalf.livejournal.com/61431.html

Any more home-made Yodas out there? Please, send in a picture I can post!

Hard to believe, but someone has actually reviewed Origami Yoda already.

Lazygal — who clearly isn’t all that lazy — gave it 4 out of 5 stars and ended her review with these magic words:

“…will appeal to the Wimpy Kid lover.”

http://lazygalreads.blogspot.com/2010/01/strange-case-of-origami-yoda-tom.html

I actually got my hands on the book for the first time today. It looks even better than I expected. What an amazing journey this has been — from folding my first Yoda finger puppet, to having the idea of the book, to getting the news from my editor that Lucasfilm approved the book. And now getting to add the book to my own well-loved, much-played-with Star Wars collection.

I haven’t seen the book in person yet, but last night my editor emailed me to say that it existed. And today a picture of the real thing showed up on Chad Beckerman’s blog:

http://cwdesigner.blogspot.com/2010/01/strange-case-of-origami-yodasneak-peak.html