Ricky Ricotta #4: Ricky Ricotta's Mighty Robot vs the Mecha-Monkeys from Mars Award-winning author by Dav Pilkey (author) and Dan Santat (illustrator)

Ricky Ricotta and his Mighty Robot are in big trouble. After crashing the Ricotta family mini-van while using it as a skateboard (it’s the only thing big enough for the Robot), they have to earn some money fast to pay for the repairs. While they’re thinking about how on EARTH they’re going to come up with the money, mean Major Monkey is making plans to enslave mousekind! Major Monkey has had his eye on earth for some time now, and he’s noticed that all the evil villains who have tried to conquer the planet keep getting foiled by Ricky Ricotta’s Mighty Robot. So the first thing to do is get rid of that Robot! Major Monkey tricks Ricky’s Robot into going to Mars. Now it’s up to Ricky to rescue his Robot and defeat Major Monkey.

Product Details

Series

Ricky Ricotta (book 4)

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9781407143361

Date published

August 7th, 2014

Accelerated Reader

AR book level: 3.6; Lower years; 0.5 points

Other details

144 pages

Condition

New

Part of this Series

Ricky Ricotta

Author/Illustrator

Dav Pilkey

When Dav Pilkey was a kid, he was diagnosed with ADHD and dyslexia. Dav was so disruptive in class that his teachers made him sit out in the hallway every day. Luckily, Dav loved to draw and make up stories. He spent his time in the hallway creating his own original comic books – the very first adventures of Dog Man and Captain Underpants.

In college, Dav met a teacher who encouraged him to illustrate and write. He won a national competition in 1986 and the prize was the publication of his first book, World War Won. He made many other books before being awarded the 1998 California Young Reader Medal for Dog Breath, which was published in 1994, and in 1997 he won the Caldecott Honor for The Paperboy.

The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby, published in 2002, was the first complete graphic novel spin-off from the Captain Underpants series and appeared at #6 on the USA Today bestseller list for all books, both adult and children’s, and was also a New York Times bestseller. It was followed by Super Diaper Baby 2: The Invasion of the Potty Snatchers, also a USA Today bestseller. The unconventional style of these graphic novels is intended to encourage uninhibited creativity in kids.

His stories are semi-autobiographical and explore universal themes that celebrate friendship, tolerance, and the triumph of the good-hearted.

Dav loves to kayak in the Pacific Northwest with his wife.