Ricky Ricotta's Mighty Robot vs. the Mutant Mosquitoes from Mercury (2000) is a children's novel written by Dav Pilkey

Dav Pilkey

David "Dav" Pilkey was born on March 4, 1966, is a popular author and illustrator of children's literature. Dav Pilkey is best known as the author and illustrator of the Captain Underpants book series. He also uses the pen names, George Beard and Harold Hutchins...

 and illustrated by Martin Ontiveros, the second in the series of books.

Plot

A mosquito that lives on Mercury hates the extremely hot days, and the very cold nights.So it creates 'Mutant Mosquitoes' which fly to take over earth .Meanwhile Ricky spots the Mutant Mosquitoes he ask his teacher if he can go,but he denied it.Thanks to Ricky's Robot,he solved them in a jiffy.Since there was 5 mosquitoes it could not defeat them but The Mighty Robot defeats them with a spray sending them back to Mercury.Angry,the mosquito drags Ricky into is ship, turning his ship into a Robotic Mutant Mosquito battling Ricky's robot.However it does not fight back,if it does Ricky will get harmed.Ricky distracts the mosquito by saying to go to the toilet and climbing out of the window getting his robot to fight and win the battle.

Trivia

The book was originally called "Ricky Ricotta's Giant Robot vs. the Mutant Mosquitoes from Mercury."

External links

• Author's site