Space Brat 4 Planet of Dips [Library Binding]

Bruce Coville (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1995 | Age Level: 9 and up | Grade Level: 4 and up | Series: Space Brat 4

Finding himself and his crew on the silliest planet in the universe after a mischievous mad scientist fiddles with the spaceship wiring, Captain Blork is challenged to discover the planet's strange secret.

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Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal

Grade 2-5-Beginning readers with a passion for weird words, stupid jokes, and odd behavior will find happiness in this light and lively addition to the series. Disaster strikes when Blork's space ship is "sucked through a Hyperspatial Transdimensional Whoopee Warp" to the restricted planet of the Dips. Dips are a carefree, rather dumb alien group (all of whom wear propeller caps that allow them to fly) and they immediately decide Blork's dog Lunk is their Lost Lord of Silliness. To save his dog, Blork must conquer his temper and fight a goofy battle with a gang of Dips. With his crew intact, he blasts off the planet of the Dips and, one assumes, into another silly adventure. Literary junk food, this will be very appealing to fans of unrestrained humor. Coville's popularity has been well proven and this series brings younger readers into his wacky orbit. Katherine Coville's pencil illustrations are plentiful and capture the spirit of the tale.
Anne Connor, Los Angeles Public Library
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From Booklist

Gr. 3^-5. It is all Space Brat Blork, hero of the author's popular Space Brat series, can do to contain his infamous temper when the spaceship he captains goes into a Whoopee Warp that draws it 14 squintillion miles off track to the planet of the Dips. The happy-go-lucky inhabitants of this planet float about cheerily by means of a small propeller atop their beanies. The Dips welcome their alien visitors; in fact, they are convinced that Blork's doglike pet, Lunk, is their long-lost Lord of Silliness, and they refuse to let him leave their planet. It is then, when faced with losing his beloved Lunk, that Blork blows his temper. From the chaos that ensues, Blork realizes that reasoning out a plan to keep Lunk will gain better results than will his uncontrolled emotions. Hidden amid wacky characters and bizarre situations, this moral may go unnoticed as readers relish the latest installment from Coville's fantastic imagination. Ellen Mandel --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 9 and up
  
• Library Binding
• Publisher: Rebound By Sagebrush; Rebound edition (August 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0785767614
• ISBN-13: 978-0785767619
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.2 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,761,830 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Bruce Coville was born in Syracuse, New York, in 1950. His family lived in farm territory, about twenty miles north of Syracuse. Bruce grew up around the corner from his grandparents' dairy farm, where he spent a great deal of time as a child, dodging cows and chores to the best of his ability. As a young reader he loved Mary Poppins and Dr. Dolittle, and still has fond memories of rising ahead of the rest of his family so he could huddle in a chair and read THE VOYAGES OF DR. DOLITTLE. He also read lots of things that people consider junk (Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys, Tom Swift, and zillions of comic books). His only real regret is the time he spent watching television, when he could have been reading instead. (A mind is a terrible thing to waste!)

His first book, THE FOOLISH GIANT, was published in 1978. It was illustrated by his wife, Katherine, whom he had married in 1969. This was followed in 1979 by SARAH'S UNICORN, also illustrated by Katherine. After a long period of working separately, the Covilles began collaborating again with SPACE BRAT and GOBLINS IN THE CASTLE, both published in 1992.

Before getting published Bruce earned his living as a toymaker, a gravedigger, a cookware salesman, an assembly line worker, and finally as an elementary school teacher (second and fourth grades). He left teaching in 1981 to devote himself to becoming a full time writer - though it took another five years to achieve that goal!)

Bruce has published nearly 100 books, which have appeared in over a dozen countries around the world and sold more than sixteen million copies. Among his most popular titles are MY TEACHER IS AN ALIEN, INTO THE LAND OF THE UNICORNS, and THE MONSTER'S RING. In 2001 he founded Full Cast Audio, an audiobook company dedicated to creating unabridged, full cast recordings of the best in children's and young adult literature.