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I liked the bit that included actual astronaut training. I hated that there were four catstronauts and every single one was male. My daughters wanted their space agency to be CASA.
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I liked the bit that included actual astronaut training. I hated that there were four catstronauts and every single one was male. My daughters wanted their space agency to be CASA.
Library copy
Energy consumption is too high, and in only 60 more days the world is due to run too low on power to keep everything going. The World’s Best Scientist’s coolest plan is to build a solar power plant on the surface of the moon, because it will always be exposed to the sun. Major Meowser (the leader), Waffles (the pilot), Blanket (the technician), and Pom Pom (the scientist) are called together and tasked with training for and completing the mission.
I bought this as a birthday present for my niece, along with the sequel, CatStronauts: Race to Mars. It was cute, although I had some problems with it, mostly due to my being unable to make my brain shut up about the internal logic issues. For some reason I could accept that the cats' spaceship came out of a giant box and included instructions, and yet it bugged me that a power blackout during the day could cause complete darkness, and that Waffles was able to eat a sandwich through his spacesuit helmet.
Blanket was probably my favorite CatStronaut - I particularly enjoyed Blanket’s love for his little robot friend. Waffles was probably my second favorite. It made me smile to see that Waffles and Blanket had such similar levels of affection for completely different things.
My few issues with it aside, this was a nice little volume, and my niece enjoyed looking at the cats. I haven’t heard from her yet about whether she liked the story.
(Original review posted on A Library Girl's Familiar Diversions.)
This was cute, although I had some problems with it that mostly had to do with being unable to make my brain shut up. It's weird how I was totally able to accept that their space ship came out of a giant box and included instructions, and yet a blackout causing complete darkness during the day bothered me. Also, there was at least one instance where internal logic was violated. How the heck did Waffles eat that sandwich through his spacesuit helmet?
But I think my niece will probably like this, and that's the important thing.
(Also: hey Grim, one of the CatStronauts had a robot friend
who saves everybody!
)
Yay, my package came in! I'm going to let the CatStronauts interfere with my Booklikes-opoly reading a bit.
