Children's Book Reviewer, Writer,
HarperCollins Reading for Pleasure Award Winner 2024
Project Manager (Young Readers Programme, National Literacy Trust)
Genre: Humour (sci-fi)
If you like: Silliness, space and angry vikings
For fans of: Louie Stowell, Jenny Pearson, Dav Pilkey
Age: Year 2+
Review:
'Postman Planet' by Ben Davis is an absolute blast. Hilarious and very, very silly, this is sure to delight anyone who gets their hands on it! With short chapters and eccentric illustrations by Yasmin Sheikh, 'Postman Planet' is perfect for reluctant readers; to show them reading can be enormous fun.
Postman Planet has a big secret. LOOK AWAY NOW IF YOU CAN’T KEEP SECRETS. Although he PRETENDS to be the best postman in the Universe, he’s actually only nine. Anyway, he's on a mission to make an essential delivery to the Planet of Fluffy Unicorns: an inflatable planet that is, as we speak, deflating. It’s up to Postman Planet and his ANNOYING new assistant Stamp, who is part-robot part-dog, to save the day.
https://www.waterstones.com/book/postman-planet-volume-1/ben-davis/yasmin-sheikh/9781398545953