"It's best-friendship at first contact after a flying saucer crashes outside a boy's house, and a Little Green Manwith a white jumpsuit and a snaggletoothed smile emerges... narration ... follows the two through the day. The boy's parents don't notice the new arrival, his classmates are mesmerized, and as for [his] teacher, she [thinks] she needsnew glasses. ... the passage of time is almost tangible in the way sunlight streams through windows or wanes as the friends race down a hill flying a kite. And when the alien'shomesickness sets in, it's light--specifically every light in the boy's house... --that attracts the attention of two green parents eager to find their child"--Publishers Weekly.
year: 2015
call number/section: 1000
subjects: aliens, fiction, friendship, extraterrestrial beings, family life
Editions
Sauer, Tammi
Sterling Children's Books (2015)
"It's best-friendship at first contact after a flying saucer crashes outside a boy's house, and a Little Green Manwith a white jumpsuit and a snaggletoothed smile emerges... narration ... follows the two through the day. The boy's parents don't notice the new arrival, his classmates are mesmerized, and as for [his] teacher, she [thinks] she needsnew glasses. ... the passage of time is almost tangible in the way sunlight streams through windows or wanes as the friends race down a hill flying a kite. And when the alien'shomesickness sets in, it's light--specifically every light in the boy's house... --that attracts the attention of two green parents eager to find their child"--Publishers Weekly.
Schools: 5
Sauer, Tammi
When a little boy meets a stranded alien child, the two quickly become friends, but at bedtime, the alien suddenly grows very sad, and the boy tries to figure out what his new friend needs to be happy again.
Schools: 0