Jed and the Space Bandits

by Jean Marzollo, Claudio Marzollo

Jed's Junior Space Patrol helps Molly, a girl who can turn invisible, to rescue her parents from bandits

Paperback

First published January 1, 1987

About the author

Jean Marzollo was an American children's author and illustrator best known for the I Spy series, a best-selling and award-winning collection written entirely in rhythm and rhyme and illustrated by Walter Wick. Over her career, she wrote more than 100 books for children, parents, and educators, including Help Me Learn Numbers 0-20, The Little Plant Doctor, and Happy Birthday, Martin Luther King. Born and raised in Connecticut, she graduated from the University of Connecticut and earned a master’s degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She taught high school English and later worked in educational publishing, serving for 20 years as editor of Scholastic’s Let’s Find Out Magazine. Later in life, she began illustrating her own books.

Reviews

[Mir · Rating 4 out of 5]

Unusual early reader featuring space pirates, invisibility, genetic engineering, and very relaxed parenting. Illustrations by Peter Sís!

[Steve · Rating 3 out of 5]

Read with my daughter in summer of 2012. We took turns reading the pages and we had fun analyzing the cross-section of the spaceship, Spaceship Ace.

[Anthony · Rating 3 out of 5]

Jed, and his Junior Space Patrol encounter a mysterious spaceship approaching his spaceship. Jed discovers that a girl named Molly who's scientist parents have been kidnapped. Jed must rescue them, and recover a stolen secret formula, and in the process has a new member join his patrol to fight crime in the galaxy.