Captain Hog: Mission to the Stars

by Daniel Postgate

In this outrageously silly outer space adventure, there's no place even remotely like home -- Earth

32 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1997

About the author

Daniel Raymond Postgate was an English scriptwriter, author and illustrator. Some of his books include Smelly Bill, Engelbert Sneem and His Dream Vacuum Machine, and Big Mum Plum. In 2014, he collaborated with Oliver Postgate's business partner and other founder of Smallfilms, Peter Firmin on the production of a new series of The Clangers, with Daniel Postgate writing many of the episodes and voicing the Iron Chicken, The Soup Dragon, and her son, Baby Soup Dragon. He won a Bafta for his episode 'I am the Eggbot'.
After the death of his father in 2008, Postgate inherited Smallfilms, the company set up by Postgate and Firmin. Smallfilms is a company that has made Pingwings, Pogles' Wood, Noggin the Nog, Ivor the Engine, Clangers and Bagpuss, and was shown on the BBC between 1950s and 1980s, and on ITV from 1959 to the present day.

Reviews

[Dylan & Belle at LearnPlayFun · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very funny!

[Leah · Rating 3 out of 5]

Home sweet home!