Ricky Ricotta #8: Ricky Ricotta's Mighty Robot vs The Naughty Night-Crawlers from Neptune Award-winning author by Dav Pilkey (author) and Dan Santat (illustrator)

Having a Mighty Robot as a best friend is great, especially when he can help build a fort! But when Ricky’s cousin Lucy shows up, she renames the fort a “castle” and says it needs curtains – rats! But these are the least of Ricky’s worries. . . Nimrod Night Crawler has created a wormhole so he can send his army of evil Night Crawlers to help him take over the world, and Ricky’s Robot is trapped in a deep pit! Without his Mighty Robot, it’s up to Ricky – and an unlikely hero – to put a stop to this nightmare from Neptune!

Product Details

Series

Ricky Ricotta (book 8)

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9781407143408

Date published

February 4th, 2016

Accelerated Reader

AR book level: 3.9; Lower years; 0.5 points

Other details

128 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.