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Ricky Ricotta's Mighty Robot Vs. the Jurassic Jackrabbits from Jupiter
Publisher: Blue Sky Press ISBN: 0439376424 |
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 It's Ricky Ricotta's birthday, and as a special treat, his parents are taking him and his Mighty Robot to see dinosaurs bones at the museum. Too bad they've also invited Ricky's little cousin Lucy - she's a real pest! When they get to the museum, all the dinosaurs are missing their heads! Soon the family discovers that an evil space-bunny from Jupiter has used the dino DNA to create Jurassic Jack Rabbits! Now it's up to the entire Ricotta family, including Lucy, to stop them from taking over the planet! Features "Flip-O-Rama" action scenes, and easy drawing instructions. |
 This book is the first in which Ricky's cousin, Lucy appears. Lucy was based on Dav Pilkey's own experiences as a kid. When Dav was growing up, most of his cousins were females. So at most family gatherings, Dav was forced to hang out with a bunch of girls.
| "When boys are at a certain age, the thought of hanging out with girls isn't very appealing. I'd never be too happy about the situation at first. But after a while, I'd sort of forget that they were girls. We'd start jumping out of trees, throwing rocks, or burning stuff with magnifying glasses, and pretty soon they didn't seem like 'girls' anymore... they just seemed like friends.
In a way, Lucy is a tribute to several of my girl cousins... who may have seemed annoying at first, but ended up being pretty cool after all." — Dav Pilkey |
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 1. Lucy was named after Lucille Ball, a comedienne from the later half of the Twentieth Century. She had a TV show called "I Love Lucy", where she was married to a musician named "Ricky Ricardo". Sound familiar?
2. Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system. It if were a hollow ball, Jupiter could contain more than one thousand Earths.
3. Jupiter spins very quickly on its axis. A day on Jupiter lasts only 9 hours and 55 minutes.
4. With 16 moons coursing around it, the Jupiter system resembles a miniature sun with planets. Like the sun, Jupiter is mostly made up of hydrogen and helium. It does not get it's orange/red color from carrots, however. This is a common misconception among rabbits and space bunnies.
5. Jupiter's "Great Red Spot" is actually a complex storm, an "anticyclone", spinning like a typhoon in a counterclockwise direction.
6. Jupiter Facts:
DISTANCE FROM SUN: 484 million miles (778 million kilometers).
REVOLUTION AROUND SUN: 11.86 years.
ROTATION: 9.9 hours.
DIAMETER: 88,750 miles (142,800 kilometers).
DENSITY: 1.3 x that of water.
MASS: 318 x that of Earth.
SURFACE TEMPERATURE: -236°F (-149°C) at cloud tops.
Jupiter facts were swiped from "www.nationalgeographic.com"
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