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dejadrew (dejadrew) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-05-11 21:12:00

Current mood:	giddy
Entry tags:	creator: kevin o'malley, creator: patrick o'brien, genre: space opera, theme: dinosaurs, title: captain raptor

Could this be the END of CAPTAIN RAPTOR?!
GUYS! GUYS! GUYS! GUYS!

I... I am giddy. I am delirious with joy. I was browsing in the children's section of the public library today and I just discovered what may just be the bestest thing ever.

There are two books, I have chosen to scan the opening to the second book, Captain Raptor and the Space Pirates, because DID YOU NOT READ THE TITLE SPACE PIRATES!

!!!

The title of the post comes from the fact that every fifth page or so ends on a cliffhanger with the ship crashing or a giant space plesiosaur attacking and the caption "Could this be the END of CAPTAIN RAPTOR?!"

IS THIS NOT THE BESTEST THING EVER IF YOU SAY NO I WILL NOT BELIEVE YOU YOU ARE MISTAKEN.

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psychop_rex
2009-05-12 03:37 am UTC (link)

This vaguely reminds me of a book series that used to be in the library of my elementary school. 'Captain Toad', I think it was called. It was about an amphibian adventurer that roamed the galaxy righting wrongs. Nothing as cool as a space-traveling dinosaur, but it was pretty fun stuff - one book, I remember, had the heroes saved from a giant alien sea serpent by the token female crewmember, who happened to be a trained opera singer - and sea monsters LOVE opera, apparently. If you run across any of them, you should check it out.
And just a thought - before the last page had fully loaded and I saw the wings, I thought that spaceship was actually a zeppelin. So I thought 'whoa, SWEET, a dinosaur who travels through space in a zeppelin!' My hopes were dashed, obviously, by the rest of the page, but I maintain that, had I been right, that would have multiplied the coolness factor by ten.
Also, good to know that I'm not the only one here who looks in the kid's section. Where else am I supposed to find my Freddy the Pig books?

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	psychop_rex 2009-05-12 03:46 am UTC (link)
	Eh, whoops, looks like I was wrong - I looked it up, and it is COMMANDER Toad, not Captain. And the books are by Jane Yolen, so it's no wonder they're good. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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