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Book Details: Price: €5.99 Binding: pb Pages: 64 Size: 196x130mm ISBN-10 0-86278-822-6 ISBN-13 978-0-86278-822-3

Rights held: World, all languages. Rights sold: Slovene

Select to see all Flyers books Mad Grandad's Flying Saucer by Oisín McGann

Yellow Flag: For readers aged 6+ (includes Flyers)

Lenny and his mad grandad buy a flying saucer and shoot into space together. But space is full of all sorts of creatures -- some are friendly, some are not so friendly...

Getting into space is easy. Getting home again -- alive -- is going to be a lot harder!

Flyer number 11

The Author Speaks
Ten Reasons Why Books Are Better Than Computer Games
Oisín answers questions from St Teresa's school
About Mad Grandad's Robot Garden: Inventing Mad Grandad

The Reader Speaks
Monsters Clink! Collaborative writing with a student
Student work based on Mad Grandad books
Eight week residency in a Dublin school

Links
Oisín's personal website
Wikipedia page for Oisín

Teaching Resources: free to view and download
Discovery Challenge: make a collage, and more!

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Slovenian edition (hardback)

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