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Your Next Read Gold: Escape From Planet Milkshake
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Do you like SCIENCE FICTION, ACTION, and FUNNY STORIES? Then this book is YOUR NEXT READ. Freddy is having a normal day until a spaceship crashes in his backyard. Now he is dealing with a cranky robot, an unexpected trip to space, and evil slime wizards!...
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Do you like SCIENCE FICTION, ACTION, and FUNNY STORIES?
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Freddy is having a normal day until a spaceship crashes in his backyard. Now he is dealing with a cranky robot, an unexpected trip to space, and evil slime wizards! And that’s all before he even arrives at Planet Milkshake …
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Do you like SCIENCE FICTION, ACTION, and FUNNY STORIES? Then this book is YOUR NEXT READ. Freddy is having a normal day until a spaceship crashes in his backyard. Now he is dealing with a cranky robot, an unexpected trip to space, and evil slime wizards! And that’s all before he even arrives at Planet Milkshake … From the creators...Paperback$1699Unit price /UnavailableOut 29 Sep 2026Pre-order -
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Book Details
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ISBN: 9781923419353
Publisher: Affirm Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 29 September 2026
Country: Australia
Imprint: Affirm Kids
Contributors:
- Illustrated by Briony Stewart
DIMENSIONS
Width: 128.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 144
About the Author
Kate and Jol Temple love to write silly books for kids! Some of them rhyme and others do not. Kate and Jol have written more than 40 books for kids including the popular Bin Chicken series and Mega Rich Guinea Pigs, plus so many more. They live in Sydney with their human sons and a dog that thinks it's a racoon.
Briony Stewart is an award-winning author and illustrator of over 25 children’s books. She wrote and illustrated the 2025 CBCA Shortlisted Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the Tooth Fairy, the 2020 CBCA Honourable We Love You Magoo, and illustrated Mina and the Whole Wide World, which won the 2022 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Children's Fiction. Briony often conducts talks and workshops for children and speaks about children’s literature at festivals and as a University lecturer.
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