Here Come the Aliens! - Softcover

Colin McNaughton

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0744543940 ISBN 13: 9780744543940

Publisher: Walker Books, 1997

Synopsis

The aliens are coming! A fleet of spaceships, full of fearsome creatures, is heading towards Earth - and what a bizarre bunch these aliens are. They're ugly and they're mean and they've only got one thing in their simple brains: to conquer the human race.

About this title

About the Author:

A renowned poet and one of Britain's leading illustrators and authors.

From School Library Journal:

Grade 1-4?Readers who enjoy McNaughton's gleefully juvenile sense of humor will find him in top form here, introducing in rhyme the members of an alien fleet hurtling toward our unsuspecting planet?"The first mate looks like wobbly jelly,/He's sort of gaseous and he's smelly;/He has an eyeball on his belly!..." Waving a variety of appendages, the corpulent, warty crew smiles up from the pages in a googly-eyed, predatory way. Is it curtains for humanity? No, wait! The aliens find an orbiting artifact that sends them into panic-stricken retreat. It's...it's?oh, the horror!?a school picture: 39 grimacing, eye-poking, hair-pulling, tongue-waggling?and in one case, vomiting?four-year-old children. We're saved. Books such as Tony Ross's I'm Coming to Get You! (Dial, 1987) and Colin Hawkins's Spooks (HarperCollins, 1994) seem restrained in comparison. Fans of low humor will give this high marks.?John Peters, New York Public Library
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About this edition

• Publisher: Walker Books
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0744543940
• ISBN 13: 9780744543940
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 32