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y separately published work icon I Got a Rocket! single work   picture book   children's  
Issue Details: First known date: 1997... 1997 I Got a Rocket!
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Adaptations

form y separately published work icon I Got A Rocket! Stu Connolly , R. A. Spratt , Jacqueline Turnure , ( dir. Glenn Kirkpatrick ) Sydney United States of America (USA) : SLR Productions Taffy Entertainment , 2006-2007 Z1856001 2006-2007 series - publisher film/TV children's science fiction humour

Based on Matt Zurbo and Dean Gorissen's picture book, I Got A Rocket! follows the adventures of a slightly lonely boy named Vinnie Q, whose inventor father presents him with an anthropomorphised rocket, Rocket. Though the appearance of Rocket does increase Vinnie's popularity, he still needs to deal with his timidity around Maya Kovsky (on whom he has a crush), the misbehaviour of the trio of bullies known as the Duckies, and the over-enthusiasm of a loyal best friend who is, after all, not human.

Notes

  • Produced by SLR Productions in co-production with Taffy Entertainment and Sunwoo Entertainment as a 52 x 12 minute animated television series screened on Network Ten in Australia.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Victoria,: Puffin , 1997 .
      Extent: [20] p.p.
      Description: col. illus.
      ISBN: 0140388230

Works about this Work

Untitled 1997 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , November vol. 41 no. 4 1997; (p. 19)

— Review of I Got a Rocket! Matt Zurbo , 1997 single work picture book
Minimal Narrative Nicola Robinson , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 194 1997; (p. 64 - 65)

— Review of The Bear's Lunch Pamela Allen , 1997 single work picture book ; I Got a Rocket! Matt Zurbo , 1997 single work picture book ; The Flaming Witch Stephanie Owen Reeder , 1997 single work picture book ; The Midwife's Daughters Marion Halligan , 1997 single work picture book
Untitled 1997 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , November vol. 41 no. 4 1997; (p. 19)

— Review of I Got a Rocket! Matt Zurbo , 1997 single work picture book
Minimal Narrative Nicola Robinson , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 194 1997; (p. 64 - 65)

— Review of The Bear's Lunch Pamela Allen , 1997 single work picture book ; I Got a Rocket! Matt Zurbo , 1997 single work picture book ; The Flaming Witch Stephanie Owen Reeder , 1997 single work picture book ; The Midwife's Daughters Marion Halligan , 1997 single work picture book
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