Puzzlooies! Space Cats to the Rescue: A Solve-the-Story Puzzle Adventure

by Russell Ginns, Jonathan Maier, Kristen Terrana-Hollis (Illustrator), Big Yellow Taxi, Inc. (Produced by)

Overview

Half chapter book. Half puzzle book. 100% hilarious!

Say goodbye to boring downtime and hello to Puzzlooies! These innovative books are packed with fun, each featuring a zany adventures peppered with eclectic puzzles. To reach the end, kids have to "solve the story" and save the day!

In Space Cats to the Rescue, an asteroid the size of ten hockey rinks is heading straight toward Earth! The Interplanetary Defense in Orbit Team has a terrible case of space sickness, so the fate of the earth is now left in the paws of four CAT-STRONAUTS. But training the fearless foursome of felines will take more than just milk and yarn. They'll have to leap to the occasion and destroy the asteroid . . . before it destroys us!

Solve the puzzles inside and help the Cat-stronauts save Earth!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780525572060
Publisher:	Random House Children's Books
Publication date:	05/11/2021
Series:	Puzzlooies!
Pages:	80
Product dimensions:	5.31(w) x 8.56(h) x 0.24(d)
Lexile:	630L (what's this?)
Age Range:	7 - 11 Years

About the Author

Russell Ginns is a composer, game designer, and the author of dozens of books, including the Samantha Spinner series and Is There a Chance You’ve Seen My Pants? Jonathan Maier is a writer and producer of kids media, including books, puzzles, and a brainy boatload of software and games.

Together, they are the brains behind Puzzlooies, the new story-puzzle series from Penguin Random House. You can also hear them on their mind-bending, side-splitting podcast Puzzlarious, or on twitter @puzzlarious.

Editorial Reviews

This witty space adventure provides a comical setting for high-quality, entertaining, age-appropriate puzzles.” —Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

2021-03-31
Cats! In! Spaaaaaaaace!

The Earth is about to be destroyed by an asteroid the size of a hockey rink, and with the Interplanetary Defense In Orbit Team out of commission after gorging on irradiated sweets, its only hope is the cat-stronauts. Rags, Sassy, Mittens, and Honeydew aren’t special, intelligent, talking cats; they’re merely common housecats. But they are the only available creatures with the extraordinary talents of the indisposed human astronauts, who always land on their feet, are skilled at squeezing into small spaces, and have “the same annoying habit of knocking things off of tabletops.” The joke-packed space adventure is the entertaining frame for a series of well-crafted puzzles, all but one offering a flawless solving experience. The 16 brainteasers hit a wide variety of different skill sets. A word ladder requires both definitions and letter manipulation, a kibble-themed cipher teaches basic code-breaking, and another puzzle requires simple number skills. Visual-manipulation puzzles, a crossword, a word search, and multiple mazes keep the solving process from getting dull. Puzzles draw on school skills, though the constant wisecracks keep them from feeling educational. Some answers aren’t detailed in the text, requiring a look at the answer key (which doesn’t always explain the method for finding the solution). A multiracial group of children who appear on the cover are not actually characters; the space authorities who narrate the story and recruit the cat-stronauts also appear to have a variety of racial backgrounds.

This witty space adventure provides a comical setting for high-quality, entertaining, age-appropriate puzzles. (Science fiction. 7-10)

Kirkus Reviews