Here Come the Aliens

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Explore planet Earth and all its secrets in rhyme."They come from planets near and far - Some big, some small, some quite bizarre." Moving at the speed of light and looking for a fight, the aliens are back - but this time they're coming to Earth to conquer the human race! With his zany rhymes and sidesplitting illustrations, the creator of Captain Abdul knows how to keep kids in stitches - especially when they peer into a mirror board and discover that Earth has a surprising secret weapon.

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Publishers Weekly Review

A fleet of smelly, wart-covered aliens with bad manners prepare to attack the earth, but run away in fear at the sight of a bunch of four year-olds fighting and puking. Funny rhymes complement gleefully gross watercolors. Ages 4-up. (Oct.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

School Library Journal Review

Gr 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 (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Horn Book Review

A rhyming text describes a crew of obnoxious, smelly, ugly aliens who are on their way to Earth. At the last second, though, they find floating in space something that frightens them so badly that they change their minds about invading Earth: a photograph of a group of four-year-olds. McNaughton's keen sense of fun, both verbal and visual, is on full display in this book. From HORN BOOK 1995, (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.