Blast off on an adventure with the Space Cadets! From beloved children's author-illustrator Alex T. Smith, the bestselling creator of Claude and How Winston Delivered Christmas, comes a funny and fast-paced illustrated adventure through space.
Filled with out-of-this world illustrations on every page, Astrid and the Space Cadets: Race from Planet Peril! is perfect for fans of Grimwood and Bad Guys, and for kids who are ready to read by themselves.
Astrid Atomic and her best friends, the Space Cadets, have been given an important mission from the Chief – to retrieve the special trophy for the Supersonic Saturn Race. Tonight they'll have to fly under boiling hot lava waterfalls, zoom through fields of flaming flowers and sneak past a big, toothy, scary space monster! And things go from bad to worse when they realize that the naughty Dr Boris Uranus on their tail. Will they get to the trophy before time runs out?
Don't miss Astrid and the gang's first adventure in Astrid and the Space Cadets: Attack of the Snailiens!
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 9781035019779
Number of pages: 160
Weight: 140 g
Dimensions: 197 x 129 x 12 mm
It's purely funny! - Cressida Cowell, author of How to Train Your Dragon
Astrid and the Space Cadets made me BEAM with joy, full of OUT-OF-THIS-WORLD characters and illustrations. - Steven Lenton, creator of Genie and Teeny and illustrator of The Nothing to See Here Hotel
Astrid and the Space Cadets! is just the kind of book I would have loved to read as a child. Alex’s wonderful witty writing is full of humour, adventure and I adore his fabulous character creations – The Snailiens! – genius! - Jim Field, illustrator of Oi Frog! and The Christmas Pig
[A] hilarious book for readers beginning to discover what reading for pleasure feels like. This is a cosmic bundle of space fuelled giggles! - Kate Pankhurst, creator of Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World
Perfect for children who are just beginning to enjoy books independently . . . Astrid and the Space Cadets is imagination at its best. - iNews
Highly illustrated 6+ galactic fun - The Guardian
At night Astrid’s wardrobe becomes a portal to an intergalactic world full of astro spuds, shrinking rays and hungry hungry snailiens.
This book was an absolute joy. It has short chapters so younger readers will...
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This is a really wonderful early reader book, and what I believe will be the start of a great series! We follow Astrid and her fellow Space Cadets as they try to carry out their latest mission and earn some special... More
Cute, inclusive and full of humour and wonderful illustrations.
The characters are funny and it'll make children and parents alike laugh.
Perfect for newly independent readers as the chapters are short.
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