Space Detectives: Extra Weird Creatures
Published on 5. August 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
160 pages
978-1-5266-0320-3 (ISBN)
Description
'Immensely, cheerily silly' Guardian
'A thunderously good read, so funny and action packed. Children are going to love it!' Serena Patel, author of ANISHA, ACCIDENTAL DETECTIVE
Grown an extra head and don't know why? You need the Space Detectives!
Connor and Ethan are bamboozled when Starville, the space station where they live, is overrun with cosmic chaos! Boys have two heads, dogs have three tails and even aliens who normally have six arms are growing extra ones!
What is going on? Can Connor and Ethan get to the bottom of this intergalactic mystery?
Featuring: a piano-playing pig, zooming hover-scooters and astronomically scrumptious Snorgleberry tarts
'A thunderously good read, so funny and action packed. Children are going to love it!' Serena Patel, author of ANISHA, ACCIDENTAL DETECTIVE
Grown an extra head and don't know why? You need the Space Detectives!
Connor and Ethan are bamboozled when Starville, the space station where they live, is overrun with cosmic chaos! Boys have two heads, dogs have three tails and even aliens who normally have six arms are growing extra ones!
What is going on? Can Connor and Ethan get to the bottom of this intergalactic mystery?
Featuring: a piano-playing pig, zooming hover-scooters and astronomically scrumptious Snorgleberry tarts
Reviews / Votes
Immensely, cheerily silly * Guardian - PRAISE FOR SPACE DETECTIVES * Action and humour aplenty * The Bookseller on SPY TOYS *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Children/juvenile
Dimensions
Height: 196 mm
Width: 125 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
160 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5266-0320-3 (9781526603203)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Mark Powers
Space Detectives: Extra Weird Creatures
E-Book
08/2021
1st Edition
Bloomsbury Childrens Books
€6.49
Available for download
Mark Powers
Space Detectives: Extra Weird Creatures
E-Book
08/2021
1st Edition
Bloomsbury Childrens Books
€6.49
Available for download
Persons
Mark Powers has been making up ridiculous stories since primary school and is slightly shocked to find people now pay him to do it. He grew up in north Wales and now lives in Manchester. His favourite animals are the binturong, the aye-aye and the dodo.
Dapo Adeola is an illustrator and designer who creates characters and images that challenge gender norms in a fun and upbeat way. He is the co-creator of the picture book series Look Up. London born and bred but of Nigerian heritage, when he's not busy cooking up new characters and adventures you can find him running illustration and character design workshops in and out of schools, to help highlight the possibilities of a career in illustration to inner-city children. Space Detectives is the first fiction series he has illustrated in the UK.
Dapo Adeola is an illustrator and designer who creates characters and images that challenge gender norms in a fun and upbeat way. He is the co-creator of the picture book series Look Up. London born and bred but of Nigerian heritage, when he's not busy cooking up new characters and adventures you can find him running illustration and character design workshops in and out of schools, to help highlight the possibilities of a career in illustration to inner-city children. Space Detectives is the first fiction series he has illustrated in the UK.