There’s an Alien in Your Book

Tom Fletcher and Greg Abbott, the British author/illustrator team who previously collaborated on There’s a Monster in Your Book and There's a Dragon in Your Book, return to the form in this third title in the series, this time devoted to a little alien who crash lands on Earth. The reader is

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given instructions throughout - shaking the book, turning it different ways, and so on - as the story proceeds to explore how the little alien can be helped. In the end, a character from one of the previous books appears and lends a hand...

As with its two predecessors, I found There's an Alien in Your Book to be a sweet, entertaining little book, one that is sure to please young story-time audiences. The various instructions will involve children in the storytelling process, and remind me quite a bit of books like Hervé Tullet's Press Here. I'm always impressed when picture-book creators manage to make their stories interactive, without resorting to any paper engineering or other special published features, so kudos to Fletcher for that. The accompanying artwork from Abbott is colorful and cute, and will no doubt keep young children's attention. All in all, a worthy follow-up to the earlier books, and one I would recommend to picture-book readers who enjoy interactive stories, or who are looking for sweeter alien adventures.

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