Ricky Ricotta's Giant Robot vs. the Voodoo Vultures from Venus

Ricky Ricotta #3

by Dav Pilkey, Martin Ontiveros (Illustrations)

In his third adventure, a small mouse named Ricky Ricotta and his best friend, a giant flying robot, save the world from Victor Von Vulture and his vicious voodoo vultures from Venus. Simultaneous.

Genres: Childrens, Chapter Books, Fiction, Graphic Novels, Science Fiction, Adventure, Fantasy

128 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1994

About the author

David "Dav" Pilkey (b. March 4, 1966), is a popular children's author and artist. Pilkey is best known as the author and illustrator of the Captain Underpants book series. He lives near Seattle, Washington with his wife, Sayuri.

Reviews

[Anthony · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ricky Ricotta and his giant robot match wits with Victor Von Vulture and his hungry vultures from Venus as they invade Earth. Victor Von Vulture invades Earth, putting everyone in Squeakyville under his spell to bring him and his hungry vultures all the food in town to them. Ricky and his giant robot devise a plan to stop Victor Von Vulture from capturing Earth.

[melhara · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5/5

This lengthy picture book about a mouse and his giant rodent robot saving Earth from alien vultures was pretty cute. I quite liked the graphics and the bonus flip-o-rama and how-to-draw-the-character pages.

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Part of a personal challenge to read all of my boyfriend's and his sister's childhood books before we donate and give them away.

[Goob · Rating 4 out of 5]

Move over Iron Giant. The real king is here

[Emily Traasdahl · Rating 3 out of 5]

I personally like long books but it still was a good book.

[Raine Villanueva · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ricky Ricotta and his robot friend are late for dinner, but his parents warned them that they're not going to watch their favorite TV Show until they learned a lesson about responsibility.

Meanwhile in Venus, Victor Von Vulture and his army hated living in Venus because of its weird food, so they decided to hypnotize the TV viewers in Squeakyville to obey him. The next day, Ricky saw his friends and teachers giving their food to the army of Vultures. Ricky and the robot are planning something to trick Victor and the Vultures. At the end, they learned how responsibility works for them.

Like Dog Man, Ricky Ricotta's Mighty Robot book series by Dav Pilkey has valuable lessons for younger readers to enjoy and learn good values.

(Read during RGYSP Week 2020 Reading Marathon)

[Amy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Toned down fisticuffs in this Ricky Ricottabook, but also, toned down adventure. It was decent, and the kids enjoyed this book, but we all agreed that this plot was just recycled from Ricky Ricotta's Mighty Robot vs. the Mutant Mosquitoes from Mercury.

[Susan]

This is a great series for early readers--lots of illustrations, not a lot of text on a single page, and funny funny funny!

I love Dav Pilkey, too. Thankful every day that he didn't listen to irritated teachers who told him to stop drawing comics, and thankful that he's a great advocate for people with ADHD and dyslexia, and thankful that he makes such fun stories!

[Adrian Mendez · Rating 4 out of 5]

My favorite part of the book was the fight scene. I would keep this book in my classroom library for students to read during free choice reading.

[Abigail Morris · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a super fun fantasy children's novel. It includes mystery, intrigue, and heroism. I will use this book in creative writing or story telling.

[Andrew · Rating 3 out of 5]

And remember kids, watching TV is bad so learn you some responsibility for great, giant robot good!

[Hanlin Z · Rating 5 out of 5]

I give this book a five because I like Ricky's mighty robot books. The vulture was trying to get earth to themselves, they were trying to destroy the world.

[Jessica Skaggs · Rating 4 out of 5]

These are fun for reading aloud, since we can easily get through one in one sitting. My kids love the bright and the flip-o-rama.

[Meg · Rating 5 out of 5]

Qué maravilla de libro. Dan ganas de ser niño otra vez solo para disfrutar con historias como la que presenta la última entrega de las aventuras de Sito Kesito y su robot gigantesco.
Hasta ahora no conocía a estos personajes creados por Dav Pilkey, e ilustrados por Dan Santat, pero me han encantado porque, aparte de la moraleja ejemplarizante que todo libro infantil contiene, en el libro se ha cuidado mucho al público al que va dirigido. Y es que los niños se lo tienen que pasar en grande no solo con la historia de aventuras en sí, sino también con los magníficos dibujos que la acompañan porque es como si consiguieran traspasar el papel de lo bien hechos que están. Además, como los peques hoy en día están tan acostumbrados a usar las nuevas tecnologías y son tan visuales, los autores logran con sus fliporamas animar la acción todavía más para adaptarse a los gustos y preferencias actuales.
Los personajes principales son geniales, pero los malos también, je, je, porque los buitres son lo más y es que, nada más verlos, ya llaman muchísimo la atención.
En cuanto al texto, me ha encantado que sea en letra grande y no demasiado extenso para que los pequeños lectores no se cansen mucho y puedan compaginar la lectura y quedarse ensimismados contemplando las imágenes.
La edición es perfecta. Desde la intensidad de los colores empleados en la portada y contraportada, al grosor de las páginas para que los más chiquitines las puedan pasar bien, el que sea de tapa dura para que resista más y el tamaño del libro, ya que me parece ideal para que los niños se lo pasen pipa con las aventuras de estos amigos tan especiales.
La única pega que le pondría, y es por ser tiquismiquis, es que me habría gustado que SM incluyera una referencia de edad en la contraportada para ayudar a los papás despistados a saber cuál es el tramo de edades ideal para su lectura, aunque con el consejo de los libreros seguro que no tienen problema y, como la historia es tan bonita y entretenida, aunque los niños todavía no lean del todo bien, los adultos estarán encantados de ayudarles.

[Nicola · Rating 2 out of 5]

Miss 3 loves Captain Underpants and now we've worked our way through almost all of Dav Pilkey's Ricky Ricotta books as well. They haven't captured her at the same level of sparkly LOVE as C. U. but she enjoys them enough to re-read them the following week. Although our library has these at the same reading level as C.U. they are much shorter and quicker to read. They're also more positive in general and a good entry for younger kids. As a parent, I love how the series works its way through the solar system and has little facts about each planet! Also, how the local jail slowly fills up with each arch-villain!

#2 Mercury : okay
#3 Venus : okay
#4 Mars : okay
#5 Jupiter: We liked Lucy getting added. Plus the shift to a non-fighting resolution and now super-small super-cute Jurassic Jackrabbits becoming pets.
#6 : Saturn: Featuring Lucy and the Jackrabbits too :)
#7: Uranus : Featuring Lucy and the Jackrabbits too :) I loved all the alliteration in this one!

[Patrick · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a fun book for lower to mid level elementary kids. What I liked most about it was that the message was a positive one. Ricky struggles with real kid problems (late for dinner) and takes his punishment in the interest of learning to be responsible. Lesson learned. Then he proceeds to bash some hilariously goofy vultures from Venus.

[J.B. Mathias · Rating 3 out of 5]

Probably the strongest in the series so far, lots of action, a decent message and great drawings. Still no humour at all though, definitely Captain Underpants minus all the edge so good but not as good.

[Carlos · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good

[Jen · Rating 3 out of 5]

Another popular one with the 6yo first grade boy. He’s especially fond of the flip-o-Rama section of these books.

[Emma · Rating 5 out of 5]

I can't really blame the vultures. I mean, melted ice cream is a tragedy.
Now I want ice cream...and cheese.

[Sylvester (Taking a break in 2023) · Rating 2 out of 5]

3* art
2.5 story

Squirt likes this series for the big illustrations and the action. At 6 yrs old it's not much of a challenge for him intellectually, but fun for sure.

[Anthony Wei · Rating 5 out of 5]

Mighty robot is so stronger then voodoo vultures

[Heather Utley · Rating 2 out of 5]

This series is not my favorite. I can see how it’s geared more for kids learning to read, but I miss the wit of Captain Underpants and Dog Man.

[Joe · Rating 4 out of 5]

A good book to young comic lovers

[Shlomit · Rating 4 out of 5]

i really liked it

[Clive Oberholtzer · Rating 3 out of 5]

I liked the vultures.

[Shafiq Nazrin · Rating 1 out of 5]

Even as a kid, I was bored with it

[Arman Waggoner · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another Great Book Series from Dav Pilkey, Himself and Good Illustration from Dan Santat

[Laura Renick-Butera · Rating 5 out of 5]

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[Dope Ghost Library · Rating 3 out of 5]

Doesn't hit the same notes as the previous entry but still kind of funny and memorable.

[April]

My 5 and 6 year olds were highly amused. Whole thing was consumed in one sitting!