A Field Guide to Aliens: Intergalactic Worrywarts, Bubblonauts, Sliver-Slurpers, and Other Extraterrestria - Hardcover

Olander, Johan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0761455949 ISBN 13: 9780761455943

Publisher: Two Lions, 2012

Synopsis

A Field Guide to Aliens is the first truly comprehensive guide to Earth's extraterrestrial visitors and includes profiles of more than twenty-five types of aliens. With this essential field guide, you'll learn about each alien's origin, diet, and distinguishing features; check out their cool tech gadgets (from lasersaws to slime grenades); get the most up-to-date information on alien sightings; see the undeniable evidence of aliens on our planet (from a giant club found in the countryside to an oddly familiar helmet and mask left in a living room; and, find out how you can become an alienologist, too. Have you ever noticed strange words spelled out in the night sky? Do you know which alien can’t be alone? Are you sure that a Knutt has never played a prank on you? Find out all of that and more in this delightfully eerie collection of extraterrestrial lore.

About this title

About the Author

Author Johan Olander is a firm believer in monsters and aliens and will trust any report of sightings until proven false. When not out chasing aliens, Johan also works as a freelance writer and illustrator. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife and daughter.

Reviews

Grade 3–6—This volume is similar to Olander's A Field Guide to Monsters (Marshall Cavendish, 2007)—a facsimile of a stained, doodle-filled scrapbook, full of sketches, text, and clippings by the author, a "senior monstrologist and alienologist." Extraterrestrials described herein include Cloudians, which, as their name suggests, conceal themselves by floating through the air and looking exactly like clouds except for their big round eyes and long flashing tongues. Another species is the Dolfini, who live in the oceans and look like dolphins with arms and legs. The descriptions of the aliens lack real imagination, as if they were fabricated quickly from lists of ideas. The colored drawings in various media are similarly so-so—most 11-year-olds who like to draw could create bogeys at least as creepy. Buy this one only if Monsters is a hit.—Walter Minkel, Austin Public Library, TX
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Edition details

• Publisher: Two Lions
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0761455949
• ISBN 13: 9780761455943
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 64