The Take-0ff! See Otto by David Milgrim

SEE OTTO GO!

Otto is the cutest litte robot you ever saw. He's brave, too, as he waves goodbye to Mom and Pop Robot and enters his spaceship heading for an earth landing.

Right on the plan, Otto steers his little rocket expertly past rocky asteroids, small planets, orbiting satellites, and assorted space junk, until he spots a likely looking planet which looks a lot like Earth. So far its A-OK!

But Otto hasn't had much training in what to do next, and he finds himself out of gas and ... falling, falling, falling, into a crash landing (BOINK!) on his head in some jungle, to the surprise of the bemused monkey population--not to mention a rather hostile hippopotamus who finds him dazed and confused, a stranger in a strange land!

Otto knows what to do when confronted by strange life forms. He gives them his biggest smile. But the natives are not friendly. The hippopotamus is faster than he looks, and he also knows what to do with that horn on his nose.

RUN, OTTO, RUN!

But Otto is not fast enough, and the hippo sends him flying, not into space, but into a tree with two surprised monkeys.

LAUGH, EVERYONE!

It's back to the old drawing board for Otto, or, in this case, back to the old typewriter for author David Milgrim, in his Ready-to-Read book, See Otto (READY-TO-READ PRE-LEVEL 1) (Simon Spotlight Ready to Read).

As the main character in a winner of the American Library Association's Theodor Seuss Geisel Award, this beginner book, with its charming little astronaut has all the right stuff--limited vocabulary, repetition, and funny, irresistible characters for the t novice reader. Keep smiling, Otto. You've got what it takes for lift-off for rookie readers! And there are many more Otto titles waiting for early readers!