Z O O N A U T S :
The Secret of Animalville
by Richard Mueller
French
German
Italian
Portuguese
Spanishillustrations by Egidio Victor Dal Chele
original concept by David Simons
edited and expanded by Sheldon Gosline
Description...
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Only when a group of super-intelligent animals and
their human friends cooperate do we have a chance of
beating an invasion of aliens who would turn us all
into food. First they have to convince the government
that there is a threat, and time is running out.
Theme...
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We are not superior to animals but different, and
we have much to teach each other.
Here creator David Simons (left) and author Richard Mueller (right) pose at a publicity event in Shanghai, China. For full story, click HERE or on their picture.
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0-9719496-6-2
Hardcover, 210pp
Ages 8-14
Price $14.95 US
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REVIEW
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�a sure-to-be-a-hit book, ZOONAUTS is a splendid mix of adventure and science fiction, teaching children environmental issues and animal rights. Teamwork and goal setting are also featured in this magnificent book. This reviewer and her twelve-year-old, Nicholas, thoroughly enjoyed this imaginative, fun, and winning book.�
- Jennifer LB Leese, Children's Book Review Columnist
A young girl's tribulations at home and school are at the center of this fantastical tale. At first glance, Jen's troubles are typical of any eighth grader: teacher trouble, a know-it-all younger brother, and a gloomy conviction that her family is nothing like those of her friends. But her secret is deeper than anyone can imagine. Jen and her brother Cody are being raised by a group of super-intelligent animals who watch over them and teach them things no other humans know. When Jen's English teacher refuses to accept her unusual family story as the truth, Jen confides in her best friend Sara about the crisis brewing at Animalville. The inhabitants of earth are threatened by an alien invasion, and only cooperation among all the sentient creatures on the planet can prevent it. Themes of animal rights, ecology, and space exploration are woven into this suspenseful story of Jen's race against time to save the world from disaster. Can Sara help?
A Note to the Parents Among You
A lot of liberties have been taken in the course of storytelling. ZOONAUTS: THE SECRET OF ANIMALVILLE is no more a history of NASA animal research and space exploration than HARRY POTTER is a treatise on ceremonial magic, or THE HOBBIT is an instruction manual for the slaying of large red dragons. Bearing that in mind, have fun!
�We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature, and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion. We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we err, and greatly err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the spendour and travail of the earth.�
From �THE OUTERMOST HOUSE�
by Henry Beston
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Earth is threatened by alien invasion, but only two kids and a group of super-intelligent animals can prevent it. Incredible? No, just another day in the sci-fi world of Hollywood scriptwriter Richard Mueller. Mueller, who has been a writer for top-rated television shows and best-selling comic books for over two decades, entertains audiences everywhere with the inside scoop on �the art� of sci-fi writing. Mueller�s work is a long list of famous science fiction programs, plus comedies and cartoons.
Richard Mueller is the author of Jernigan's Egg, Time Machine 24, and Ghostbusters: The Supernatural Spectacular, which sold 150,000 copies. He has also written scripts for Milo's Great Adventure, Buzz Lightyear of Star Command, Robocop, X-Men, Land of the Lost, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, and Married . . . with Children. He lives in Los Angeles. Egidio Victor Dal Chele is known for his artwork in God, the Devil and Bob, Scooby Doo and the Alien Invaders, All Dogs Christmas, He-Man & the Masters of the Universe, Fat Albert, and Shazam. He lives in Los Angeles.
