Description
From million-copy bestselling author David Walliams comes a laugh-out-loud animal space adventure.
Chump the chimpanzee was always being silly. He would:
- make rude noises from BOTH ENDS…
- pick his nose with his little toe…
- eat the skins of bananas, hurling out the tasty part inside.
NASA’s scientists thought he’d be the PERFECT chimp to send into space. Little did Chump know that he had been selected for a deadly-dangerous mission. If a chimp could orbit Earth, then chances were a human could too.
With Chump the chimp at the controls of a spacecraft, what could possibly go wrong? As it turned out, EVERYTHING.
Blast off with Chump, and encounter dog space pirates, evil insects, and the silliest chimpanzee who ever lived in this wildly funny space opera, fully illustrated in fantastic colour.
Review
Chump is the first chimpanzee in space, but things certainly do not go to plan!
When the red button - that is not supposed to be pressed - accidentally gets hit, Chump finds himself in all sorts of trouble! And things only get worse when he opens his helmet and finds himself frozen for 50 years...
He is only unfrozen when he crashes into the pirate spaceship of Dmitri, a dog who was also sent into space and who then found himself stuck up there. But Dmitri is not such a nice dog, and he has been raiding other spaceships for years to survive.
In an ongoing series of mishaps, Chump finds himself floating in space with Dmitri, as they seem to encounter everyone that Dmitri has ever wronged, including giant fruit flies and cloned cats! But when a giant globe is headed straight for Earth, they all might just have to work together...
This is a fabulous, fast-paced, and humorous graphic novel that will appeal to all in middle to upper primary.
