....and it's definitely not the sort of thing that normally happens on a Thursday.
Hannah is an ordinary schoolgirl living in a town like yours, but she can't help having adventures. What starts out as a normal morning at school becomes very interesting when her class go on a trip to visit local inventor, Professor Groves.
Professor Groves has built a rocket to go to space, but hasn't quite finished it yet. He has however installed the big green button which makes it 'go'. You can maybe guess what happens next...
It turns out the moon isn't uninhabited after all...
Hannah The Spanner is lots of fun. It's funny and written in a tongue-in-cheek way that made my 9 and 11 year old boys grin. Everything that happens is either completely mundane and normal, or massively larger than life and extraordinary. That mix is great - a kind of Mighty Boosh for kids.
The writing style is very accessible to children. The illustrations are big, bright and bold, with lots of expression in the faces of the characters. Hannah The Spanner has a really modern feel, yet in many ways it's the same humour as The Beano - tried and tested and entertaining children since before your Grandparents were born..
Special mention to the work experience students who spent the entire trip looking for signal to post selfies and Tweet #goingtothemoon. So believable, and very funny...
Hannah The Spanner And The Trip To The Moon is written and illustrated by Stuart Simmonds and Bill Greenhead, who together created StuHead Publishing. Glossy large format paperback with 42 pages. Available now from all good bookshops rrp £7.99. There are several other books in the series now too. Amazon affiliate links below:
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The giveaway will end at midnight Sunday December 1st and it is open to UK entrants only. Full terms and conditions at the bottom of the Gleam giveaway form.
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We were sent our copy of Hannah The Spanner And The Trip To The Moon for review. Amazon links are affiliate, so I earn a few pence towards my own spaceship if you buy through my link, but you don't pay any extra.
I would have loved to go to the deepest ocean!
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ReplyDeleteI'd have loved a school trip to Vesuvius as a kid! It was always somewhere I wanted to visit. But last week I finally got to see it in real life!
ReplyDeleteThe world's biggest or most interesting library, I loved reading then and I love it now
ReplyDeleteAmazon rainforest- imagine the views
ReplyDeleteI would have love to go to the Great Wall Of China
ReplyDeleteNew Zealand would have been fantastic!
ReplyDeleteI'd have loved New York, so many kids seem to actually go there on school trips now, it's crazy!
ReplyDeleteThe Natural History Museum.
ReplyDeletei would have loved to go to a seaworld
ReplyDeleteto space! x
ReplyDeleteI would have love to have visited Iceland!
ReplyDeleteJapan would have been interesting x
ReplyDeleteThe Tower of London and the various museums would have been a fab school trip/holiday!
ReplyDeleteIceland be interesting
ReplyDeleteNative America xx
ReplyDeleteI'd have loved to go on a skiing holiday during school - before I developed that sense of fear!!
ReplyDeleteTo the Wild West in New Mexico.
ReplyDeleteA day trip to London, visiting all the sites
ReplyDeleteI would have loved to go to London as a child
ReplyDeleteAnywhere would have been great but I would have loved to go to a city as we were rural kids and it would have been so different.
ReplyDeleteDisney land
ReplyDeleteChester Zoo many years ago where I was lifted up by an elephant
ReplyDeleteI’d have loved to explore the deep blue sea, I was always fascinated with the ocean at school
ReplyDeleteThe london tombs
ReplyDeleteIt would have been great to have a school trip to Canada whale watching as always been a dream trip of mine, I will go one day
ReplyDeleteThe Giants Causeway
ReplyDeleteI always wanted to go to Disneyland Paris when I was at school. I think they did a trip and I wasn't able to go.
ReplyDeleteDisney land Paris
ReplyDeleteTo Cadbury World would have been good
ReplyDeleteYo a galaxy far far away......
ReplyDeleteI would have loved to visit all the big museums in London
ReplyDeleteLondon zoo to see all of the animals of the world
ReplyDeleteIt has to be Stonehenge because of the history involved.
ReplyDeleteAnywhere, we had do few school trips, but Athens would have been amazing
ReplyDeleteFrance would have been good to help my struggling French language.
ReplyDeleteJurassic Park! How great to be able to go and see some dinosaurs.
ReplyDeleteDisney World would have been brilliant, expensive school trip though!
ReplyDeleteA chocolate factory would have been my dream
ReplyDeleteThe great barrier reef
ReplyDeleteThe Amazon to see all the different types of birds
ReplyDeleteThe Natural History Museum.
ReplyDeleteWe actually went to the old Planetariam - it was amazing at the time
ReplyDeleteDisneyland Paris would have been cool
ReplyDeleteVenice, Disney World or Old Trafford would have suited me when I was at school
ReplyDeleteHawaii to see the fantastic volcanoes and beaches
ReplyDeleteI think to DisneyLand Florida
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