The Adventures of Billy Butler Billy The Astronaut
By Dave Goodenough Illustrated by Ira V. Gates
Indigo River Publishing Inc
3West Garden Street, Pensacola, Fl 32502
www.indigoriverpublishing.com
9780986049347, $9.99, www.amazon.com
“The Adventures of Billy Butler Billy The Astronaut” makes you believe that Mars is inhabited. As the novel opens Billy has a minor accident with his bicycle that appears worse than it really is, he has fights with his older brother and has only a few friends. He later learns of a contest to decorate a float with an outer space theme in the annual parade where first place is a trip to the space center in Texas. He imagines that he is an astronaut on a flight to Mars where he meets the beings of that planet and he has a series of adventures while he is there. He later establishes that it was all a dream and works hard to win first prize in the contest. The writing is fast paced with many interesting characters as Billy’s imagination creates the series of events he becomes involved in.
“The Adventures of Billy Butler Billy The Astronaut” is hopefully the first of many tales of young Billy Butler.
