It is time for lift-off! We are going on missions with Astrid and her Space Cadets! Snails! Trash! And more!

I just adore Alex T. Smith’s work, so when I saw this new serie pop up? Well, I needed to have it! And this was just so oodles of fun~

In this one we meet a little girl, looks ordinary, has an ordinary family, but this is a girl who, when she goes to bed, gets up to do space missions along with her motley crew! They have a great starship named Stardust and they help out people wherever they can! If they solve missions they get rewards and there is one giant reward to be won for the first one to complete a whole card (of course, I was instantly rooting for our crew). In this one a mission that shouldn’t have been hard (well, if Professor Quackers invention worked), turns into an even more excited one when someone requires their help with some BIG BIG BIG snails. Did I mention they are hungry? Well, they are. And this person? Has a whole lot of special hopefully-price-winning veggies/fruits and doesn’t want those big snails to eat them. Which I could understand, I was definitely curious how Astrid and her crew would solve this problem… well, I can tell you it involves a lot of distraction, a dash of mechanical mishaps, and a lot of trauma, haha. Because these snails are slimy! I just loved seeing how chaotic it all got, but also how Astrid never gave up even when things seemed to go the wrong way. She is determined to help and I was just cheering for her. Plus, also wishing I could be part of the crew and just help out. Discover all these places! Work for a big price!

I loved that the snails in the end even got a pretty good deal out of things. I won’t tell you what, but I am sure that every reader is happy with it!

The art was oodles of fun! I love how dynamic this book was and how fun it was to read with all the little details, the big illustrations, the fonts that changed.

All in all, this girl would recommend this astro-tastic book to all! Alex T. Smith has done it again and I cannot wait to see what more adventures our motley crew will have!