Astrid and the Space Cadets: Race from Planet Peril!

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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 adventure through space!

Fantastically narrated, 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 listen 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 realise 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!

Critics Review

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

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