AstroNuts Mission One: The Plant Planet [Dramatized Adaptation]: AstroNuts 1

Jon Scieszka · Steven Weinberg

Aug 2021 · AstroNuts Book 1 · Graphic Audio · Narrated by Chris Stinson, Colleen Delany, Danny Gavigan, Dawn Ursula, Nanette Savard, Richard Rohan, Terence Aselford, Tia Shearer, John Kielty, and Jenna Sharpe

About this audiobook

A laugh-out-loud tale packed with science, adventure, and a whole lot of fun for all ages!
Humans have gone too far, wrecking planet Earth. We might need to find a new planet. But who could possibly help us do that? The AstroNuts!
Lucky for us, back in the 1980s, NNASA (NotNASA) created four secret super-powered Animal Astronauts—AlphaWolf, SmartHawk, LaserShark, and StinkBug.
They were built to be automatically launched into space to check out possible Goldilocks planets if things on Earth ever got too bad. Unlucky for us, things just got too bad.
The AstroNuts first destination, the Plant Planet, looks just right. It has oxygen, shelter, water, and no obvious intelligent life. But what if plant life has a mind of its own? And what if that mind has one very scary plan for our AstroNuts?
A non-stop joyful listen for reluctant readers and fans ready to blast past Wimpy Kid.
Performed by Nanette Savard, Danny Gavigan, Dawn Ursula, Tia Shearer, Chris Stinson, Terence Aselford, Richard Rohan, Colleen Delany, John Kielty and Jenna Sharpe.

About the author

Jon Scieszka was born September 8, 1954 in Flint, Michigan. After he graduated from Culver Military Academy where he was a Lieutenant, he studied to be a doctor at Albion College. He changed career directions and attended Columbia University where he received a Master of Fine Arts degree in 1980. Before he became a full time writer, Scieszka was a lifeguard, painted factories, houses, and apartments and also wrote for magazines. He taught elementary school in New York for ten years as a 1st grade assistant, a 2nd grade homeroom teacher, and a computer, math, science and history teacher in 3rd - 8th grade. He decided to take off a year from teaching in order to work with Lane Smith, an illustrator, to develop ideas for children's books. His book, The Stinky Cheese Man received the 1994 Rhode Island Children's Book Award. Scieszka's Math Curse, illustrated by Lane Smith, was an American Library Association Notable Book in 1996; a Blue Ribbon Book from the Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books in 1995; and a Publisher's Weekly Best Children's Book in 1995. The Stinky Cheese Man received Georgia's 1997 Children's Choice Award and Wisconsin's The Golden Archer Award. Math Curse received Maine's Student Book Award, The Texas Bluebonnet Award and New Hampshire's The Great Stone Face Book Award in 1997. He was appointed the first National Ambassador for Young People's Literature by the Library of Congress in 2008. In 2014 his title, Frank Einstein and the Antimatter Motor made The New York Times Best Seller List. Frank Einstein and the Electro-Finger made the list in 2015.