One of our Books of the Year 2014 Best-selling Philip Reeve and Sarah McIntyre’s space adventure with a difference sees Astra, a young girl travelling to a new life in Nova Mundi, setting in motion a gigantic cake catastrophe. Astra is ‘definitely peckish’ at the start of her family’s 199 year space trip. With the help of the little Robot Pilbeam, Astra asks the Norm-O-Tron computer in the dining hall to create something ‘So delicious, it’s scary’. The result is an army of cake monsters and some very terrifying adventures!
Some of our readers were lucky enough to review the first collaboration between Philip Reeve and Sarah McIntyre, the brilliant Oliver and the Seawigs. Here's what 2 young reviewers thought..'I like this book because it is exciting and full of adventure. The illustrations are also very good...I give it 100 stars!'and 'A really funny book, full of amazing characters and brilliant pictures...I really hope Oliver has more adventures because I'd love to read them.' . Find more reviews here!
And Glenn Cosby, Contestant from the 2013 Great British Bake-Off comments: “Cakes in Space is a right laugh, but I know that I will never see cakes again in the same way. Cakes in Space is an exciting and hilarious story that I read in one sitting and one I am sure mums and dads will enjoy as much as the kids.”
Get ready for killer cupcakes! Deadly donuts! And an outer space adventure with illustrations on almost every page.
Astra's family is moving-to a whole new planet. And what does any kid need on moving day? Snacks! But when Astra asks her spaceship's computer to whip up the ultimate dessert, it makes cakes so amazing that they come to life. Now these cake-monsters are destroying the ship! Can Astra and her robot friend stop them in time? Or are these terrible treats a recipe for disaster?
For early chapter book readers who are ready for something longer, the Not-So-Impossible Tales are packed with silly humor, action, and larger-than-life fun.
"An out-of-this-world choice to read alone or read aloud." -School Library Journal "Will appeal to reluctant and strong chapter-book readers alike." -Booklist
"Goofy fun from the first page, and Astra, a perfect mix of ingenious, precocious, and excitable, will grab readers right away." -The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books