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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. In Meteor Madness! the Space Penguins are attacked by a fleet of starships, and only escape by the skin of their beaks. But they soon start to notice strange things going on, and it seems there may be a shapeshifter onboard… This hilarious Space Penguins adventure is sure to appeal to young boys and girls who love action and science fiction. Full of fishy goings on, humour and adventure this is a fantastic series that will tickle even reluctant boy readers.
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Seitenzahl: 49
Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2013
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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
INTRODUCTION
I am ICEcube and you are on board the Tunafish, the coolest spaceship in the universe. It’s cool because it’s full of penguins, and penguins like to keep the temperature down. I’m the Tunafish’s onboard computer and I can’t tell lies, so you know that this is true.
Yes. Penguin astronauts fly the Tunafish. As penguins don’t normally fly, and have never been to space before, this is unusual. But NASA decided that penguin astronauts could send useful information about space back to Earth. They trained five penguins, gave them spacesuits and blasted them into orbit. One disappeared to make plans for ruling the universe by himself. The rest lost contact with Earth, and now have only my very large brain to keep them company out here among the stars.
My database says: NASA are a bunch of turnip-heads.
It’s a shame that the penguins got lost, because we have learned a lot about space that we could share with Earth.
Fuzz Allgrin invented a nice pickle using Massive Bugle-blasting Blagwit bogies.
Captain T. Krill learned that being brave is all very well, until you upset a Massive Bugle-blasting Blagwit by picking its nose.
Rocky Waddle recently found out that left and right are not the same thing, except when you’re on the planet Mirramirra.
And Splash Gordon has learned not to have a birthday party when space pirates are attacking the Tunafish.
RECALCULATING…
Sorry, Splash hasn’t learned this yet. The crew are throwing him a birthday party right now, singing rude songs about seals and eating too much. I have been trying to tell them about the space pirates for four minutes and twenty-three seconds, but no one is listening.
The space pirates will arrive in approximately twelve minutes and forty seconds. So will the birthday cake. In the meantime, I hope the Tunafish crew enjoy Fuzz’s piranha biscuits. They won’t make the space pirates go away, but they make a lovely SNAP when you bite into them.
Yum yum. Enjoy them while you can.
CHAPTER ONE
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SPLASH!
Balloons and streamers littered the cabin floor of the spaceship Tunafish. A large banner saying HAPPY BIRTHDAY SPLASH! hung overhead as three penguins in party hats sat round a decorated party table, happily resting their flippers on their full bellies. The Tunafish cruised along in autopilot.
“Sing that song about seals again, Rocky!” said Splash Gordon, the Ship’s Engineer. His party hat had fallen over his eyes and made him look like he had two beaks.
The Tunafish’s pilot, Rocky Waddle, swept his long yellow eyebrows out of his eyes, parped on his party-blower and started singing:
“OH, seals are fat, seals are smelly,
Seals aren’t cute like they are on the telly.
We don’t like seals, coz they think we’re yum,
If we saw a seal in space, we’d kick it up the—”
“THANK YOU, Rocky,” said Captain Krill with a frown on his yellow-striped face. “Can you check the flight instruments? I thought I heard a strange pinging noise coming from the autopilot.”
Rocky parped on his party-blower again and waddled over to the flight deck. “All knobs, dials and flashing lights on the autopilot are working perfectly, Captain,” he reported. “The pinging noise must be coming from somewhere else.”
A small fluffy penguin in a large chef’s hat came out of the kitchen.
“The pinging sound is Splash’s birthday cake,” Fuzz Allgrin said, wiping a blob of cake mix off his face.
“My cake is pinging?” asked Splash.
“The oven is pinging,” Fuzz said, “to let me know the cake is ready.”
“Calling all Space Penguins,” said ICEcube, for the fifth time in five minutes.
“We’re having a party, ICEcube,” Rocky said, waving his flippers around. “Stop doing your bossy voice.”
“ICEcube doesn’t have a bossy voice,” said ICEcube.
“I’m sorry, but you definitely do,” said Fuzz.
“Let’s talk after the cake, ICEcube,” said Captain Krill.
“It’s important, Captain,” said ICEcube.
“So’s my cake,” said Splash. “What flavour is it, Fuzz? Sprat? Kipper?” Fuzz wagged a flour-covered flipper.
“You’ll have to wait and see, birthday bird. And you have to eat your space-spinach first.”
