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The first in a brilliantly funny new series starring the most intrepid dinosaurs you'll ever meet in space-
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Captain Teggs is no ordinary dinosaur - he's an astrosaur! On the incredible spaceship DSS Sauropod, along with his faithful crew, Gypsy, Arx and Iggy, Teggs rights wrongs, fights evil and eats a lot of grass! In this first adventure, the herbivore astrosaurs have to face a fearsome enemy - a band of greedy carnivorous raptors who have kidnapped two athlete dinosaurs from under Tegg's nose. Can the Captain save the dinosaurs, escape from terrifying T-Rexes and still save the Dinosaur Games?
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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful
StegTrek - First of a series of excellent 'dinosaurs in space' sci-fi books aimed at preteen boys
13 Oct 2005
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My son (10) isn't very good at reading, so I read these Astrosaurs books to him at bedtime. He really enjoyed them and so we have bought all of the series (8 books at present) to encourage him to like books as much as his Playstation 2, TV and DVD's. Most books we have are shared with his 12 year old sister, so he appreciated a good book aimed at young boys. The sci-fi stories are quite good (we are Dr Who, StarWars, Dinotopia, and New Captain Scarlet fans) and you get the boys top favourite (dinosaurs) thrown in as well. The only problem with them is that Steve Cole can't write them quick enough - and the SciFi content of the stories is improving with each new book.
The series follows the space adventures of a troupe of vegetarian dinosaurs (they escaped the meteor hit 50 million years ago by leaving Earth in spaceships). Captain Teggs and his crew, Gypsy, Arx and Iggy are no ordinary dinosaurs - they are Astrosaurs! They fly through space in the Dinosaur Space Service starship, the DSS Sauropod, keeping the peace in the vegetarian sector of the Jurassic Quadrant. They also patrol the neutral VegMeat zone to defend against the inhabitants of the notorious Carnivore Sector. Plus they are explorers, who boldly go where no fern chewing reptile has boldly gone before.
This is the first book of the excellent series. In order the books are Riddle of the raptors, The hatching horror, The seas of doom, The mind swap menace, The skies of fear, The space ghosts, Day of the dino-driods, and The terror bird trap. More are due to be published this year.
In this book newly promoted Teggs and his crew are transporting the sector's top vegetarian athletes to the Great Dinosaur Games at Planet Olympus. Suddenly a Raptor Deathship appears and attacks the DSS Sauropod, and a Raptor boarding party kidnapps two of the best athletes. But there's more to the Raptors' plot than meets the eye, so can Captain Teggs solve their rascally riddle in time? Like the rest of the series, the book it is suitably tense in places for little ones.
They are best read in order. My son says "Like the other books it was cool, I liked the characters and the pictures (the reading books are filled many good line drawing illustrations). I also liked the cut-out cards at the front". I would think the books would suit any pre-teen boy older than four, who appreciates space travel (probably up to age 12). I also enjoyed reading them out loud. There are surprisingly few good books aimed squarely at young boys about, so highly recommended. Also try 'The tentacled terror' plus the 'Horrid Henry', 'Seriously silly stories', `The demon headmaster' and the US 'Captain Underpants' series of books.
The series follows the space adventures of a troupe of vegetarian dinosaurs (they escaped the meteor hit 50 million years ago by leaving Earth in spaceships). Captain Teggs and his crew, Gypsy, Arx and Iggy are no ordinary dinosaurs - they are Astrosaurs! They fly through space in the Dinosaur Space Service starship, the DSS Sauropod, keeping the peace in the vegetarian sector of the Jurassic Quadrant. They also patrol the neutral VegMeat zone to defend against the inhabitants of the notorious Carnivore Sector. Plus they are explorers, who boldly go where no fern chewing reptile has boldly gone before.
This is the first book of the excellent series. In order the books are Riddle of the raptors, The hatching horror, The seas of doom, The mind swap menace, The skies of fear, The space ghosts, Day of the dino-driods, and The terror bird trap. More are due to be published this year.
In this book newly promoted Teggs and his crew are transporting the sector's top vegetarian athletes to the Great Dinosaur Games at Planet Olympus. Suddenly a Raptor Deathship appears and attacks the DSS Sauropod, and a Raptor boarding party kidnapps two of the best athletes. But there's more to the Raptors' plot than meets the eye, so can Captain Teggs solve their rascally riddle in time? Like the rest of the series, the book it is suitably tense in places for little ones.
They are best read in order. My son says "Like the other books it was cool, I liked the characters and the pictures (the reading books are filled many good line drawing illustrations). I also liked the cut-out cards at the front". I would think the books would suit any pre-teen boy older than four, who appreciates space travel (probably up to age 12). I also enjoyed reading them out loud. There are surprisingly few good books aimed squarely at young boys about, so highly recommended. Also try 'The tentacled terror' plus the 'Horrid Henry', 'Seriously silly stories', `The demon headmaster' and the US 'Captain Underpants' series of books.
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I really enjoyed this book about the adventures that Dinosaurs have being Astronauts. I kept wanting my Mum to read me another chapter to see what happened next. I think the planet names are funny. I like the cool cards you can collect in each book and I can't wait to get the next book. I would recommend this book to other 7 year boys.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Great first first reading books - and enduring!
This is the series that got my son hooked on reading! He loved them at 5, he still reads them regularly at 8 and I regularly find them in his big sisters bed! Read more
Published 19 months ago by Little Poem
Excellent book for KS1 children to read themselves
My son (aged 6) received the whole series of Astrosaurs for Christmas. He has been reading Dinosaur Cove himself and loving it, so we started this first book of the Astrosaurs... Read more
Published on 17 Jan 2010 by Beansmummy
Scooped 7 year old up, up and away
We bought book 1 for his 7th birthday, which sat around for quite some time, we read the first chapter to him, little interest, then one day he picked it up himself, he devoured it... Read more
Published on 26 Jun 2009 by A. Culver
Riddle of the Raptors
I have really struggled to find books for my sons of 8 and 6 to read and these books are fantastic. My 8 year old has been reading them on his own and as there are so many I get... Read more
Published on 27 Oct 2008 by L. Hampton
Comical and crazy
This was one of the last books of Astrosaurs that I read, so by then I knew lots of stuff in it, from the other books. Read more
Published on 25 May 2008 by FJOL
A bit exciting.
I liked this book because it has good Astrosaur cards and the story is good. The parts of the story are the surprise ending and the middle. (Reviewed by Leela age 6).
Published on 24 Feb 2008 by Leela
There,s nothing better than action
I realy like these books because they are so cool to read.I have only two
of the books so I look forward to geting the rest.I think they are all going to be very cool.
of the books so I look forward to geting the rest.I think they are all going to be very cool.
Published on 30 Sep 2007 by J. Bettridge
I like it!
I think it's amazing. I liked chapters 2 and 3 because I think it's very funny when the Raptors kidnap the Stegocerus athletes. Read more
Published on 25 April 2005 by Jessica Reeve (age 5)
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