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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: DarkWader. In book five of the Space Penguins series, the penguins accept an invite to take a holiday on a new leisure planet. But little do they realize they're waddling into a trap. Before long they find themselves the number one attraction in the planet's zoo. Can they rescue the zoo's other aliens and break out, or is it a life behind bars for the penguins? 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 children aged six to eight.
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Seitenzahl: 50
Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2014
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For Owen, Georgina and Eliza. May their love of books give them wings. ~L A C
For Brig ~ J D
CONTENTS
MEET THESPACE 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…
Can we take off yet?
I am ICEcube, the mega-brainy computer guidance system for the Tunafish. But even though I have a brain the size of a moon, I can’t fix the dents on the spaceship, or the cracked wing fins. I can’t weld broken panels back together and I can’t get burn marks off windscreens. Only four penguins in spacesuits can do that. I thank my circuit boards that I don’t have a human crew.
A human crew was too expensive to train and send into deep space. Penguins were a lot cheaper. And they’re better at this space stuff than you might think.
Last week, Rocky Waddle landed the damaged Tunafish here on the planet Chork. Although he did mean to land on the planet Cheez, next door.
Captain T. Krill made the Chorks and the Cheezis talk to each other for the first time in a thousand years, despite their many differences.
Splash Gordon invented the Chork2Cheez translating machine that made this possible.
And Fuzz Allgrin introduced the noble sport of fish-wrestling, which has turned into a major craze on both planets.
Chorks and Cheezis are now spending their time swapping fish-wrestling stories. Which is good, because the Chorks had just invented an enormous bomb that they were thinking of dropping on the Cheezis.
Phew!
We’ve been stuck on Chork for over a week now as the Space Penguins make the Tunafish space-ready again after an extremely close shave with the mechanical meteors of the planet Kroesus during our last adventure. You could say I was bored of waiting, except that computers can’t feel bored.
By the way, I have counted all the stars in the universe twice now.
I wish they’d hurry up…
CHAPTER ONE
AN OOZI INVITATION
Captain Krill paced up and down the main cabin of the Tunafish, listening to the Intergalactic Space Report. It was quite difficult to hear because ICEcube was counting the number of stars in the universe out loud at the same time.
“Two billion, three hundred and three stars,” ICEcube droned. “Two billion, three hundred and four stars…”
The Captain turned up the volume.
“…Two well known individuals have been captured following a bold attempted robbery on the planet Kroesus. The Kroesan security forces turned the full might of the Tickling Stick of Justice on the suspects and forced a confession after only five minutes. Dark Wader, lately of the Death Starfish space station, and Anadin Skyporker, Emperor of the planet Sossij, can now look forward to years of imprisonment in the Kroesan high-security jail.
“In further news, the number of unusual alien species going missing from planets in section T of the universe has been climbing…”
The door from the engine room clanged shut as Splash Gordon, the Tunafish’s Chief Engineer, clumped into the cabin. Wriggling out of his penguin-sized spacesuit and helmet, Splash twanged up his goggles and wiped his feathered forehead. Then he twanged his goggles back down and wiped his forehead again, because his goggles had been in the way before.
“I’ve just heard some excellent news, Splash,” Captain Krill beamed. “Beaky Wader and his pig-faced chum won’t be chasing us for a while. They’re facing prison sentences on the planet Kroesus.”
“I’m glad to hear it,” said Splash. “They almost destroyed our ship!”
“How’s the Tunafish looking?” asked the Captain. “Can we leave yet?”
Splash counted out the Tunafish’s problems on his flippers. He quickly moved on to his webbed toes, as penguins only have two flippers.
“The nose cone was badly dented. The fins were covered in stress cracks. The propulsion system wasn’t propelling properly. The boosters weren’t boosting. And the windscreen was a total mess.”
“But you’ve fixed all that,” said Captain Krill. “Right?”
“I’ve reshaped the nose cone,” Splash said. “Rocky has replaced the fins and sorted out the propulsion system.”
Rocky Waddle came into the cabin, just behind Splash. “We’re going to fly out of here so fast we might leave my eyebrows behind.”
“The boosters and the windscreen?” Captain Krill checked.
A small blue penguin in a spacesuit slid into view on the outside of the windscreen, dangling upside down. He held up a cloth and some windscreen polish to the penguins inside the cabin.
