Book cover.
Ms. Pac-Man's Prize Pupil is a children's picture book published in 1983 by the Western Publishing Company. It is based on the Hanna-Barbera cartoon and houses many maze puzzles inside of it. Read-along versions (on both record and cassette) were also released by Kid Stuff.
Plot[]
Ms. Pac-Man takes Baby Pac-Man for a walk while the ghosts Inky, Blinky, Pinky and Sue watch over and want to get the Power Pellets inside of her purse. Ms. Pac then teaches Baby Pac-Man about oak trees, bushes and poison ivy, the last of which where the ghosts were hiding in and proceed to itch in pain after realizing their mistake too late; Ms. Pac hears the ghosts and enters a spider web maze in order to lose the ghosts. Ms. Pac succeeds in getting through the maze while happy that she managed to teach her son how to get away from ghosts while the ghosts chasing her are still in pain from the poison ivy and almost getting eaten by the spider yet they persisted pursuing her.
Dark clouds started to form in the sky which leads to Ms. Pac going into the Big Slide Maze in order to get home as quickly as possible so she chooses the slide that goes to the soft pile of hay before heading off to the Swamp Maze for an even faster shortcut while the ghost accidentally take the paths to the porcupines and get jabbed by their painful quills. Ms. Pac and Baby Pac-Man ride a log through the Swamp Maze and make it out safely as she then tells Pac-Man what she taught their son which Pac-Man is happy to hear about; the ghosts get attacked by a hungry alligator with Blinky and Sue assuming that a smart person helped Ms. Pac out.
The ghosts get doused by the rain and decide to break into Pac-Man's house via the chimney while the ghosts fight to see who gets in first which leads to all of them getting stuck as a tornado arrives with Ms. Pac confused on who taught Baby Pac-Man how to wave goodbye where he sees the ghosts getting carried off by the tornado.
Trivia[]
- Clyde is entirely absent from the book but his role is taken by Inky who is colored orange while Blinky takes the role of Inky and is also cyan. Additionally, "Blinky's" hat is not the same one as the cartoon.
- Blinky and Sue break the fourth wall with their assumption in knowing that someone helped Ms. Pac-Man through the mazes.