Alien Baby!: A Hazy Dell Flap Book

by Elias Barks, Meg Hunt (Illustrator)

Overview

★ 2021 Independent Publisher Book Award Winner

Open the flaps to follow a young gray alien toddler over the course of an intergalactic day in a fantastical outer space wonderland.

Young readers and pre-readers will delight in the details of this magical cosmic world brought to life with bright pinks and blues, spiral galaxies, asteroids, shooting stars and unexpected and delightful creatures behind every celestial swirl. Each spread features a flap revealing a fun, unexpected and friendly character or hidden aspect of the scene for the reader to discover at their own pace. At the end of the day’s adventure floating through this celestial dreamscape, Alien Baby is tucked safely into a spaceship bed, joined by loving alien parents.

The durable, interactive flaps make this an ideal multisensory experience for hours of fun at schools, libraries, homeschool or stay-at-home activities.

★"Delightful…Stellar fun for any astronaut-to-be.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781948931090
Publisher:	Hazy Dell Press
Publication date:	04/07/2020
Series:	Hazy Dell Flap Book , #2
Pages:	12
Sales rank:	413,489
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 5.50(h) x 0.90(d)
Lexile:	380L (what's this?)
Age Range:	3 Months to 4 Years

About the Author

Author Elias Barks lives with his cats, Agnes and Magnus, beneath the gray skies of Astoria, Oregon. He is the author of all four Hazy Dell Flap Books.

Meg Hunt is a celebrated and award-winning artist living in Portland, Oregon. In addition to illustrating four Hazy Dell Flap Books, Meg has illustrated picture books for Chronicle, Bloomsbury, and Hazy Dell Press. Meg has won a Gold Medal from the Society of Illustrators and has had her illustrations featured in The New York Times, Washington Post, and Junior Scholastic Magazine.

Editorial Reviews

★"Delightful…Eye-catching artwork evokes the great science-fiction and fantasy pulp art of yesteryear, only with playful, toddler-sized creatures with big grins and a sense of adventure. The text is a series of rhymed couplets presented over bright and dazzling double-page spreads…Stellar fun for any astronaut-to-be.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review

★ 2021 Independent Publisher Book Award Winner

“Perfect for saying ‘good night’ to your little one.” —The Oregonian

“This series of innovative lift-the-flap adventures…guarantees endless fun for small hands and inquisitive minds. Durable, chunky pages…and cheerful rhymes complete the multisensory experience.” —Foreword Reviews

From the Publisher

★ 2020-04-08
Entertainment for tots that’s visually and conceptually out of this world.

“They’re here…” and they’re babies! That’s the message from this delightful bedtime diversion. A classically bug-eyed ET and their otherworldly friends charm and amuse in this small, sturdy exploration of the paranormal for toddlers. Eye-catching artwork evokes the great science-fiction and fantasy pulp art of yesteryear, only with playful, toddler-sized creatures with big grins and a sense of adventure. The text is a series of rhymed couplets presented over bright and dazzling double-page spreads. Each vignette poses a question on the first page that is answered by opening a well-secured but mercifully easy-to-open flap on recto: “Who’s zipping past in a flash of light?” Opening the flap reveals the answer: “It’s Alien Baby taking flight!” The die-cut flaps won’t tear easily, and little fingers can grab and open each one with ease thanks to the unusual thickness of the pages and the generous amount of space between the edge of each flap and the rest of the page upon which it resides. UFOlogists will recognize Alien Baby as a “Roswell Gray.” The supporting cast includes a “space baboon,” a robot, a “lizard man,” two startled human astronauts (one brown skinned and one pale), and two adoring parents to tuck Alien Baby in to a whispered “night, night!” Companion title Bigfoot Baby! is earthbound and equally charming.

Stellar fun for any astronaut-to-be. (Board book. 1-4)

Kirkus Reviews