When an Alien Meets a Swamp Monster
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- USD 5.99
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- USD 5.99
Descripción editorial
Could two little boys who scare each other silly ever become friends?
When Alik and Boi accidentally bump into each other at the pond, they aren’t exactly thrilled. In fact, they’re terrified! Boi thinks Alik is a swamp monster, and Alik thinks Boi is a space alien. Both run home in a panic to share their news, but their families don’t believe them. If only Alik and Boi can drum up the courage to venture back outside, they just might cross paths again and realize how much they have in common.
With an encouraging message about second chances and looking past appearances, this delightfully absurd story about two very different-looking adventurers is full of laugh-out-loud, action-packed fun. It’s perfect for fans of funny books like Shark vs. Train and Children Make Terrible Pets.
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Illustrator Van Wright (Nobody Asked the Pea) tries his hand as author in a story involving misunderstandings, overactive imaginations, and "verometric outerhull stabilizers." With a goggled helmet and customized red scooter, J.T. Boi is ready to explore, but a crash landing puts him face to face with a bona fide swamp monster. The "monster" is equally horrified he's actually a gator named Alik. "Well, I was at the pond, reading my comics and sipping some fizzy pop," Alik tells his brother, "when a giant spaceship landed and out came... an alien!" Nodding to the comic books that both J.T. and Alik love, Van Bright augments the story with occasional sequential panels and captions ("Then, suddenly "). The storytelling itself is a bit jumbled, opening with long quotes from J.T. before settling into a more traditional narrative; the story hovers between picture book and comic, not entirely comfortably. But Van Wright's pencil-and-watercolor artwork more than compensates, invigorating the story with action and comedy, from J.T. and Alik's muddy first encounter (with an epic "Ahhhhhhhhh!") to their eventual realization that they have much in common. Ages 3 5.
