AstroNuts Mission One: The Plant Planet

By Jon Scieszka and Steven Weinberg

This laugh-out-loud, visually groundbreaking read launches a major new series by children's literature legend Jon Scieszka. Featuring full-color illustrations throughout, a spectacular gatefold, plus how-to-draw pages in the back, it's an outer space adventure that demonstrates a giant leap for bookmaking and a giant leap for any kid looking for their next go-to series. AstroWolf, LaserShark, SmartHawk, and StinkBug are animals that have been hybridized to find other planets for humans to live on once we've ruined Earth. So off they rocket to the Plant Planet! Will that planet support human life? Or do Plant Planet's inhabitants have a more sinister plan? AstroNuts Mission One is a can't-put-it-down page-turner for reluctant readers and fans ready to blast past Wimpy Kid.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Chronicle Books Digital
• Release date: Sep 10, 2019
• ISBN: 9781452173030

Jon Scieszka

Jon Scieszka is best known for his bestselling picture books, including The True Story of the Three Little Pigs! and The Stinky Cheese Man. He is also the founder of guysread.com and a champion force behind guyslisten.com, and was the first National Ambassador of Young People's Literature. He lives in Brooklyn.

Book preview

Chapter 1: Ahhhhhhhh!!!

Inside the Thomas Jefferson Nose Rocket, things got off to a rough start.

Maybe because the super animals had been in storage for more than 25 years. But maybe also because they had been made of oddball bits and parts.

They were superpowered, sure. But they’d never been tested.

Command Escape, the slightly rusty, very glitchy 1988 computer brains of the Goldilocks Mission, popped onto the Nose Rocket vid-screen.

///// Official NNASA transcript /////

//// of ASTRONUT MISSION 1 ////

Command Escape: Yes. About that/about that/about that. There has been one small change in your program.

LaserShark: Every day we get more fabulous superpowers?

Command Escape: Not exactly/not exactly.

SmartHawk: With each mission, we get smarter and