Ed Petrie presents Cosmic Bringing Books to Life

ICE CREAM VAN PLAYS JINGLE

Ice creams! Get your ice creams! It's a lovely, sunny day!

I don't think I'm fooling anyone. Have you ever told a little lie?

How about a big one?

Well, I bet it's not as big the whopper that starts off

this brilliant book, Cosmic.

Liam, he's the boy who's told the whopper,

leaves this phone message for his mum and dad.

"Mum, Dad,

"if you're listening, you know I said I was going to

"the South Lakeland Outdoor Activity Centre with the school?

"To be completely honest, I'm not exactly in the Lake District.

"To be completely honest, I'm more, sort of,

"in space.

"I'm on this rocket, The Infinite Possibility.

"I'm about 200,000 miles above the surface of the Earth."

Yep. You heard right. Liam is supposed to be on a school trip.

Instead, he's on a rocket -

a rocket with a, kind of, intergalactic ice cream van

attached to it,

in space.

Imagine how he must be feeling.

ENGINE REVS

Argh! Argh!!

Argh! Argh! I guess a little bit like this! A-ha-ha-ha! Argh!

HE CONTINUES SCREAMING

Liam only gets to go on the rocket because he's so tall,

he tells everyone he's a grown-up.

I know, another lie!

But can you blame him?

I mean, look at that!

Liam says it better than me.

"When you're in it, space looks like the biggest fireworks display ever.

"Except it's on pause. It looks like freeze-frame fireworks.

"Even if you're completely doomed, you've got to be impressed."

Is Liam doomed?

He's on a rocket being sucked into the Moon's orbit

and almost certainly going to end up circling in space for ever.

I would say that's pretty high on the doom-o-meter.

Of course, the only way to find out if Liam makes it home

is to read the book.

I think you'll like it. And that's not a lie.

Right, let's try this again.

VAN RUMBLES

On second thoughts, I'll just get a burger.

VAN PLAYS JINGLE

Subtitles by Red Bee Media Ltd