Sascha Martin's Rocket-Ship

"The story is 'poetry in motion' for rocket ships! Manuela Pentangelo has visually interpreted John's verse with all the best icons from rocketry and science in the gorgeous illustrations." Samantha Ridgway, scientist and record-holding Australian rocketeer.


Sascha Martin is eight years old, but he's not your average Year Two schoolboy. He lives in the spookiest part of town near his best friend Luca and his not-friend Mary-Alice, and he invents amazing things in a secret lab beneath his room.


Sascha's first News of the year is a thumping great rocket that towers over everyone, including the teacher, and there's a button on the side that says: "Don't touch!" Well in a class full of children, that's just a red rag to a bull, isn't it?


This maiden flight is a delicious journey into chaos as Sascha Martin's Rocket-Ship crashes through buildings and roars into the skies above Landfill Public School with Sascha, two screaming teachers, an oven full of pies and a growing tail of books and toys and classroom equipment swept along in its wake.


With beautiful illustrations by Manuela Pentangelo, and a foreword written by record-breaking rocketeer Sam Ridgway (the first woman in Australia internationally accredited to fly Level 3 High Powered rockets), this is a book to surprise and delight children and their parents.


Sascha Martin's Rocket-Ship is filled with mayhem and laughter, and for children craving inspiration it opens up a world of real life rocketry and science that will power their imaginations far into the future.


"I am constantly looking for new titles that we can read together and I believe I have struck gold with this one! 'Sascha Martin's Rocket-Ship' is an adorable story about an imaginative student who takes his class (teachers and all) on a ride they won't soon forget." Thomai Dion, scientist and author of Think-a-Lot Tots.


"Delightful, rhyming story that keeps your fingers turning the pages. John Arthur Nichol and Manuela Pentangelo are a synchronized pair! I read this story again and again." E. C. Kraeft, author of White Castle (Elf Kingdoms #1)