A picture book that is out of this world! Orville lives at the zoo, surrounded by animal pals who go on exciting adventures. - A hang gliding rhino! - A deep-sea diving giraffe! Orville struggles to keep up, until one day he concocts an adventure all his own: build a spaceship and fly to the moon all by himself. Can one tiny penguin get there alone? Or will Orville find that sometimes you need a little help from your friends? Marcie Colleen's playful text and Emma Yarlett's charming, whimsical illustrations are sure to delight both children and their parents.

 

There are 32 pages in this book. This is a picture book. A picture book uses pictures and text to tell the story. The number of words varies from zero ('wordless') to around 1k over 32 pages. Picture books are typically aimed at young readers (age 3-6) but can also be aimed at older children (7+). This book was published 2019 by Scholastic .

Marcie Colleen is the author of the picture books, Love, Triangle (2017) and The Adventure of the Penguinaut ( 2018). She's a former classroom teacher and current Educational Consultant for the Picture Book Month initiative. She also creates Teacher's Guides for picture books and middle grade novels and is a huge advocate for using children's fictional literature in the classroom. Emma Yarlett graduated from University College Falmouth in 2011 and since then has finished her debut picture book, created animation artwork for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize and has illustrated a non-fiction book by Julia Donaldson.