Space Detectives
1st Edition
Published on 4. February 2021
176 pages
978-1-5266-0316-6 (ISBN)
Description
'Immensely, cheerily silly' Guardian
Dog lost in space? Grown an extra head and don't know why? Pocket money stolen by a green blob? You need the Space Detectives!
Connor and Ethan are spending their summer holidays aboard the world's first orbiting city, Starville (basically Beverley Hills in space!). The amazing space station is bursting with celebrities and the mega-rich. But Connor and Ethan are too busy selling ice cream to see the sights.
However, neither of our heroes can resist a mystery and when they discover the space station is hurtling on a collision course with the moon (eep!) they know they need to step in. This is a case for the SPACE DETECTIVES!
Can Connor and Ethan find the culprit and save Starville from its impending doom?
LOOK OUT FOR SPACE DETECTIVES: EXTRA WEIRD CREATURES
Dog lost in space? Grown an extra head and don't know why? Pocket money stolen by a green blob? You need the Space Detectives!
Connor and Ethan are spending their summer holidays aboard the world's first orbiting city, Starville (basically Beverley Hills in space!). The amazing space station is bursting with celebrities and the mega-rich. But Connor and Ethan are too busy selling ice cream to see the sights.
However, neither of our heroes can resist a mystery and when they discover the space station is hurtling on a collision course with the moon (eep!) they know they need to step in. This is a case for the SPACE DETECTIVES!
Can Connor and Ethan find the culprit and save Starville from its impending doom?
LOOK OUT FOR SPACE DETECTIVES: EXTRA WEIRD CREATURES
More details
Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Children/juvenile
7-9 years
ISBN-13
978-1-5266-0316-6 (9781526603166)
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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.
Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- PROLOGUE
- PROLOGUE
- Chapter 1 Welcome to Starville
- Chapter 2 No walk in the park
- Chapter 3 Friends in high places
- Chapter 4 Panic on the streets of Starville
- Chapter 5 Hubbub in the hub
- Chapter 6 Rather a whopper
- Chapter 7 Pick one
- EPILOGUE
- COULD YOU BE A
- Space Detectives: EXTRA WEIRD CREATURES
- PROLOGUE
- Chapter 1 Felix Plum is unwell
- Chapter 2 Head boy
- eCopyright
