Informania: Aliens - Softcover

Mitton, Jacqueline

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0763610429 ISBN 13: 9780763610425

Publisher: Candlewick, 2000

Synopsis

Explores the possibility of life on other planets, covering such topics as our exploration of space, reports of UFO sightings and alien abductions, and famous extraterrestrials from movies and television. Reprint.

About this title

From School Library Journal:

Grade 3-5-This spiral-bound browser's delight is printed on stiff-coated stock and arranged in tabbed sections. The book opens with an issue of "UFOs: The Magazine with All the Answers," presents readers with an entrance exam for Space Cadet School, summarizes our efforts to send and receive extraterrestrial communications, and closes with a casting director's portfolio of movie aliens from Ming the Merciless (Flash Gordon) to the giant Bugs of 1997's Starship Troopers. Tucked around the sheaves of small color photos, cartoons, and detailed paintings, the well-leaded text adds more than a veneer of information. The authors (skeptically) recount several UFO sightings, explain why life elsewhere in our solar system is unlikely but may exist around other stars, and describe the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) in some detail. Though it won't survive a great deal of handling, this inviting mix of hype and hypotheses will draw readers like a magnet.
John Peters, New York Public Library
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Candlewick
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0763610429
• ISBN 13: 9780763610425
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 92