The Intergalactic Kitchen
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The Intergalactic Kitchen is a 2001 book by Frank Rogers
Frank Rogers
Frank Rogers may refer to:*Frank Rogers , American record producer*Frank Lewis Rogers , New Zealand politician*Frank Rogers , fictional character in TV soap Brookside...

. The book was released on October 4, 2001, which would soon lead to the sequel. The book, part of the Sci-Fi genre, is centered around a kitchen
Kitchen
A kitchen is a room or part of a room used for cooking and food preparation.In the West, a modern residential kitchen is typically equipped with a stove, a sink with hot and cold running water, a refrigerator and kitchen cabinets arranged according to a modular design. Many households have a...

 which can start intergalactic travel. The Intergalactic Kitchen is published in the UK by Barn Owl Books.

Introduction

Before the story
Narrative
A narrative is a constructive format that describes a sequence of non-fictional or fictional events. The word derives from the Latin verb narrare, "to recount", and is related to the adjective gnarus, "knowing" or "skilled"...

 starts, Frank Rogers introduces the reader to the Bird family.
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The Bird family live in the grounds of BONC - the National Bureau
Office
An office is generally a room or other area in which people work, but may also denote a position within an organization with specific duties attached to it ; the latter is in fact an earlier usage, office as place originally referring to the location of one's duty. When used as an adjective, the...

 of Clever Experts, where some very odd experiment
Experiment
An experiment is a methodical procedure carried out with the goal of verifying, falsifying, or establishing the validity of a hypothesis. Experiments vary greatly in their goal and scale, but always rely on repeatable procedure and logical analysis of the results...

s go on.

Starting

The story starts with Mr Bird installing a protection system for the house. Mrs Bird presses the emergency
Emergency
An emergency is a situation that poses an immediate risk to health, life, property or environment. Most emergencies require urgent intervention to prevent a worsening of the situation, although in some situations, mitigation may not be possible and agencies may only be able to offer palliative...

 button and the kitchen goes into orbit
Orbit
In physics, an orbit is the gravitationally curved path of an object around a point in space, for example the orbit of a planet around the center of a star system, such as the Solar System...

.

Intergalactic Events

When in orbit many events happen. These include:
  • A Intergalactic Traffic Warden,
  • A Gossiping Alien,
  • Gas and Electric Readers
  • A Salesman
  • A Bulldozer!

Television series

The book was made into a tv series that run in 2004. It was shown on BBC One
BBC One
BBC One is the flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom. It was launched on 2 November 1936 as the BBC Television Service, and was the world's first regular television service with a high level of image resolution...

. The show is about the Bird children (Robin, Snoo and Jay), their mother and Fleur, a rival from Snoo and Jay's school. They are about to go camping, when Mrs. Bird accidentally activates a force field, and are shot off into outer space
Outer space
Outer space is the void that exists between celestial bodies, including the Earth. It is not completely empty, but consists of a hard vacuum containing a low density of particles: predominantly a plasma of hydrogen and helium, as well as electromagnetic radiation, magnetic fields, and neutrinos....

. They attempt to try to get back to earth, when a family of four aliens
Extraterrestrial life in popular culture
In popular cultures, "extraterrestrials" are life forms — especially intelligent life forms— that are of extraterrestrial origin .-Historical ideas:-Pre-modern:...

arrive in the Kitchen. Then everything goes wrong, when Mrs. Bird accidentally climbs into the alien's spaceship, and Mr. and Mrs. Krryptyx accidentally activate the engines, thus separating Mrs. Bird's children and Mr. and Mrs. Krryptyx's children. This has, both the kids and the adults, on a series of mad adventures.
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