You all know that Monkey’s reading journey has been a long one. He loves books, just not the reading of them. He recently moved up another band in his school reading books, and I know that free reading chapter books are on the horizon. So I’m trying to put more emphasis on me reading him chapter books at home, than picture books, to form part of that transition. We’ve been enjoying The Mad Moon Mission lately, and it’s really rather good.
Aimed at children aged 7 years and over, The Mad Moon Mission is written by Andrew Guile and features over 150 illustrations from Curt Walstead. This is the second installment in the The Amazing Adventures of Skinny Finny and Super Spy Wobblebottom. We’ve not read the first book, The Crazy Christmas Caper, but it hasn’t hindered the enjoyment as we’ve read The Mad Moon Mission together.
Published through Matador at the end of January, we meet up with Skinny Finny and his twin brother Tubby. They’ve been reunited with their parents and have just moved to a plush apartment overlooking The Shard, in the centre of London. It would appear that the first book must have followed the boys as they rescued their parents from the evil clutches of Dr Buttscratcher. In The Mad Moon Mission, the parents have promised the boys that they won’t leave them again, but it isn’t long before they are called away on another secret mission. This time, it relates to something secret in space. The boys, who don’t always see eye to eye, are disappointed to say the least and want an adventure of their own.
There’s lots of funny moments as Skinny Finny and Tubby team up with the British Agent, Super Spy Wobblebottom to thwart their arch-enemy Dr Buttscratcher. Let’s face it, the character names alone have been enough to have my 7-year-old Monkey in fits of giggles. The writing is perfect for children of that age group and he’s loved me reading it to him.
Can the boys save the world from Dr Buttscratcher and his plans for world domination? With messages of good and evil as well as loyalty and revenge, The Mad Moon Mission is a full on action packed read, and one we can give a big thumbs up to. Priced at £8.99 for the paperback version, I’ve included my Amazon Affiliate link below for your reference.
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i think it would have to be mars to search for the martian life and if found to do comparisons to earth x
Mars to search for aliens!
pluto because i like the name
Saturn because I’d love to explore it – photos always look amazing!
Saturn and explore the rings xx
Neptune to see if it is like being under the ocean
mars to see if I can spot some aliens to bring home
Id pick mars to see if there’s signs of life
I would like to as far as possible- so Pluto!
mars to see if there really are any aliens
I would go to Mars to see if it is made of chocolate!
MOON TO EAT CHEESE
mars because it sounds good x
I would go to Pluto to see how cold it is
Mars. See if there’s little green men there
Mars always hear about this one
Mars 🙂 because I’d like to see what we’ve only seen on photos
I’d go to Venus, because it’s my favourite sounding planet!
I’d like to see what Mars is like! See if there’s really life on mars!
I would love explore venus, after all thats where we come from 🙂
I’d visit Button Moon to bring back Mr. Spoon, then drop the garbage off with The Clangers…or am I confusing them with the Wombles? Then I’d take a well earned break on the planet Risa from the Star Trek universe 😉
The moon to look for the man in the moon!
I would go to the Moon to see what Earth looks like from it
Saturn – I love all the rings, it is a stunning planet, a lovely colour too
I’d like to explore Saturn as it’s my son’s favourite because of it’s rings!
I’d love to visit Venus as it’s the closest to earth , just to start me off
I’d love to visit Mars as I’ve loved it since I was a kid and watch Marvin Martian
I would love to go to Mars to explore the red planet.
Mars to eat the chocolate
I’d love to go and check out the large storm on Jupiter
Someone’s got to say it-uranus because it would make the boys laugh
Mars to see if there is any life there
on a mission to mars to search for aliens 😉
The moon, to see if it is made of cheese!
Venus, as they sat that’s where women are from. plus I love the name.
Mars to find little green men.
I’d love to explore Uranus just to see 🙂
Mars, as it’s the next big one..only a matter of time til NASA launch a rocket I reckon, would love to be on it!
I would go looking for aliens on Mars
Mars – no point visiting any other!
Pluto as its the planet we seem to know the least about 🙂
Would have to be Saturn to see the rings up close
Mars to search for Marvin the Martian (my favourite Looney Tunes character).
I would like to find out if the moon was made of cheese
I’d love to go to Mars because it’s always fascinated me – I even wrote a book set on Mars when I was a child! And I’d love to see if there really are “men from Mars” 🙂
I would like to go to mars to see if I can understand my partner a bit more! He’s definitely from mars!
id go to Mars. it looks fascinating
I would go to Mars because I’m sure theres aliens there!! x
I’d like to fly throught he coloured rings of Saturn,
I would go to Mars in the hope that it would be full of mars bars!!!!
I would go to Saturn, which girl doesn’t like a ring or two
Mars – isn’t that where Mars Bars come from?!
Mars because it would be so interesting
Mercury I like to be hot, I get really grumpy when I am cold 😉
I trhink Mars – because we always grew up thinking there was life on Mars
The moon as I would love to see the earth from there
Saturn, I want to fly through those rings and see them close up. Such splendid structures.
I would go to Mars as it is the only one that wouldn’t kill me!
Mars so that I can search for aliens
I would go to Pluto and look for plutonium.
Would have to be Jupiter to see what the storm is like
I would love to go to Mars so that I could see if it really is as red as it looks from Earth!
The moon to see if it is made of cheese!
I’d go to Mars just to see what it’s like
Mars….to see if there are chocolate bars on it.
I’d love to visit Mars because I’ve always wondered if there is life on there!
Mars because chocolate. 😛
I would not want to go to another planet, what I would like is to go around earth, and see what it will look like
Mars to see if it’s really red
To mars to see if martians really look like I imagine them
id lov to go to the moon!!
The moon, would like to see if it’s really not shiny!
Kepler-186f because its the most habitable, I do wonder if there is life there and they are just as unaware of us!
It would be the moon for me so the children could watch my spaceship land through their telescope.
I would love to go to Mars to see what the planet really looks like
Saturm. Motor racing on the rings race track!
The moon to see the earth from 🙂
the moon how amazing would be it to moon walk jumping across the moons surface
mars it would be interesting to see the red planet
Since I was little girl I’ve always wanted to travel to Mars, hoping to see Aliens lol
Space has always fascinated me. Now our little boy is like mummy.
I’d choose Mars to see if there really is life on there x
I think it would be Mars because of its varied landscape.
I would visit Neptune as it’s the furthest from the Sun in the solar system.
Mars because it could have supported life