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- Herausgeber: Little Tiger Press
- Kategorie: Für Kinder und Jugendliche
- Serie: Space Penguins
- Sprache: Englisch
What's black and white, and flies faster than the speed of light? The Space Penguins! They're the ice-cool crew of the spaceship Tunafish. With their pioneering flying skills and resistance to the deep freeze, these intergalactic avians are going where no fin has gone before. Captain T Krill, Rocky Waddle, Fuzz Allgrin and Splash Gordon are on a mission to explore new planets, rescue alien life, and battle their former comrade-in-wings: Dark Wader. The penguins receive a distress call from a glamorous cruise spacecraft. But when they reach the stricken vessel, its passengers and crew are nowhere to be found. Could their disappearance have something to do with an ominous black hole nearby? And are the penguins destined to be its next victims? A hilarious series, featuring everyone's favourite flightless birds! Packed with out of this world aliens, flipper to the floor penguin action, and daft jokes and puns, these books are perfect for boys and girls aged six to eight.
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Seitenzahl: 49
Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2014
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CONTENTS
MEET THE SPACE PENGUINS...
CAPTAIN:
Captain T. Krill
Emperor penguin
Height: 1.10m
Looks: yellow ear patches and noble bearing
Likes: swordfish minus the sword
Lab tests: showed leadership qualities in fish challenge
Guaranteed to: keep calm in a crisis
FIRST MATE (ONCE UPON A TIME):
Beaky Wader, now known as Dark Wader
Once Emperor penguin, now part-robot
Height: 1.22m
Looks: shiny black armour and evil laugh
Likes: prawn pizzas and ruling the universe
Lab tests: cheated at every challenge
Guaranteed to: cause trouble
PILOT (WITH NO SENSE OF DIRECTION):
Rocky Waddle
Rockhopper penguin
Height: 45cm
Looks: long yellow eyebrows
Likes: mackerel ice cream
Lab tests: fastest slider in toboggan challenge
Guaranteed to: speed through an asteroid belt while reading charts upside down
SECURITY OFFICER AND HEAD CHEF:
Fuzz Allgrin
Little Blue penguin
Height: 33cm
Looks: small with fuzzy blue feathers
Likes: fish fingers in cream and truffle sauce
Lab tests: showed creativity and aggression in ice-carving challenge
Guaranteed to: defend ship, crew and kitchen with his life
SHIP’S ENGINEER:
Splash Gordon
King penguin
Height: 95cm
Looks: orange ears and chest markings
Likes: squid
Lab tests: solved ice-cube challenge in under four seconds
Guaranteed to: fix anything
LOADING...
My circuits suddenly feel as fresh as Saturn’s best socks. My networks work! My operating system is operating! I would jump for joy if I had legs. But I’m a computer, so I can’t.
My name is ICEcube. I wasn’t designed to be eaten by metal-munching space beasts. I was designed to speed the Space Penguins safely through the universe aboard their ship, the trusty Tunafish. By the time that hungry Flogisaur was finished with us in our last adventure, the Tunafish was little more than a pile of rusty fish bones. Our ship’s engineer Splash Gordon was responsible for the Flogisaur in the first place, so he worked extra hard to repair what was left of me. He mended everything aboard with the metal the penguins collected from the planet Flogiston. Now all that’s left is the tidying up. It could take a while.
Splash isn’t the only one around here who’s brilliant at his job.
Captain Krill is the bravest leader a team of Space Penguins could wish for. Zero gravity? More like hero gravity.
Rocky Waddle flies like an eagle with a stubby tail and long eyebrows. (Only when he’s behind the controls of the Tunafish, of course. Everyone knows penguins can’t fly by themselves.)
And with his cooking and his karate, Chief Security Officer Fuzz Allgrin is… What’s the word I want? I’m not used to my new circuits yet.
Oh yes. Small.
Everything’s new and shiny now. These things make computers happy. But I have one tiny problem.
The penguins picked up a piece of metal on Flogiston that’s making me nervous. I am one hundred per cent certain that it’s meganesium. Meganesium is the most explosive material in the cosmos. Just get it wet and BOOM! Splash picked up enough to destroy this whole ship. I’ve tried warning the penguins, but they can’t hear me – my speech-converter chip hasn’t been fixed yet.
I hope Splash hasn’t mended this ship just to wreck it again.
CHAPTER ONE
TIDY UP TIME
The Tunafish was a mess. Piles of metal shavings and wire clippings lay on the floor. Crusty cloths, grimy goggles and smouldering soldering irons hung out of drawers. New saucepans stood in jumbled heaps. ICEcube was right. Splash’s miraculous Tunafish makeover was going to take a LOT of tidying up.
In the middle of the chaos, the Space Penguins stood in a puzzled circle around a shiny red piece of metal on the table.
The metal was flat and round like a biscuit, and glimmered ominously.
“What is it?” Captain Krill asked.
“The strangest metal I’ve ever seen,” said Splash. He wiped his oily forehead with an even oilier cloth. “I tried to melt it down to make a new handle for one of Fuzz’s saucepans, but it wouldn’t melt.”
A tear of happiness rolled off Fuzz’s beak. It landed on the table, dangerously close to the meganesium. “That’s the nicest thing anyone’s ever done for me,” he said.
“But he hasn’t done it, Fuzz,” Captain Krill pointed out.
Two more tears. Splosh. Splosh.
“It’s the thought that counts,” Fuzz sniffed.
Splash shook his head. “I’ve heated it. I’ve cooled it. I’ve hit it with everything in my toolbox. I’ve stressed it and shaken it. I’ve even bounced it. And it still looks the same as it did when we picked it up. I’ve never seen a metal like it.”
Rocky admired his reflection in the meganesium’s shiny red surface. “Maybe we could use it as a mirror,” he suggested.
“I’ll keep it in my toolbox,” Splash decided. “It might come in useful in the engine room.”
Lifting his belly, the Ship’s Engineer opened the egg-shaped toolbox nestling on his feet and popped the circle of metal inside.
“Right,” he said, looking around the messy flight deck. “Time to tidy up.”
Rocky started whistling. Fuzz wiped his eyes and stared at the ceiling. Captain Krill studied his flippers.
“Any volunteers?” said Splash.
“I’m setting the flight coordinates,” said Rocky. “Sorry.”
“And I am making cosmic cod cupcakes.” Fuzz picked up a brand-new cupcake tray from the floor and waddled into the kitchen.
“Sorry, Splash,” said Captain Krill. “I have a lot of … captainy things to do today.”
