The Hundred Decker Rocket
By (Author) Mike Smith
Pan Macmillan
Macmillan Children's Books
25th January 2022
5th August 2021
Illustrated edition
United Kingdom
Children
Fiction
Childrens / Teenage general interest: Transport and vehicles
Early years: things that go
Childrens / Teenage fiction: Action and adventure stories
823.92
Paperback
32
Width 225mm, Height 280mm, Spine 4mm
206g
A fun-packed space adventure - with lots of funny details for little readers to spot, and a BIG fold-out rocket ending! Buckle up and blast into space with Ivy the inventor, and her trusty canine sidekick, Eddie... But when Ivy meets some very messy aliens, can she help them clean up their planet And, of course, help them fix their super-duper hundred decker rocket! A brilliantly inventive story with a subtle message about keeping our planet clean. From the creator of The Hundred Decker Bus.
Mike Smith has an MA in Children's Book Illustration from the Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University. He is a winner of the Macmillan Prize for Children's Picture Book Illustration. When he was a child, Mike's favourite illustrators were Herge, Charles Schultz and Richard Scarry, all of whom still influence his work today. Mike and his partner Caroline lived on a canal boat in Cambridge for seven years, but they have now swapped their boat for a house in Leicestershire, where they live happily with their two sons and their dogs.