Aliens Get the Sniffles Too! Ahhh-Choo!

by Katy S. Duffield, K. G. Campbell (Illustrator)

Overview

Ahhh-flying-saucer-shooting-star-CHOO! Laughter is the best medicine when you’re a little alien feeling under the weather.

Little Alien is sick. And sick is extra-terrestrial bad when you have two scratchy throats, five ears that hurt, and three runny noses. Splatch! Sputter! Spurt! Luckily Mama and Daddy Alien have an arsenal of lunar decongestants and meteor showers on hand to make him feel a little better (not to mention a Milky Way milkshake to help the medicine go down). Even so, the family’s alien pooch, Mars Rover, can’t stand to see his little buddy feeling out of sorts. Can a loyal pup’s funny tricks finally coax a smile?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780763665029
Publisher:	Candlewick Press
Publication date:	11/07/2017
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	9.80(w) x 10.80(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	3 - 7 Years

About the Author

Katy Duffield has written more than twenty books for children. She lives in Florida with her husband.

K. G. Campbell is the illustrator of Flora & Ulysses by Kate DiCamillo and the author-illustrator of Lester’s Dreadful Sweaters. He was born in Kenya, raised in Scotland, and now lives in southern California.

Editorial Reviews

Campbell's pen, watercolor, and colored pencil illustrations keep the focus on the central action, though there are enough tantalizing details of the alien world to whet readers' appetites. Mama Alien is pink, Daddy's blue, and their son is green. All are expressive. Kids who are ill here on Earth may be entertained by this look at one alien's cold and his family's attempts to make him feel better.
—Kirkus Reviews

Anyone with a cold will find comfort in the company of this sick little alien as he sneezes with increasing ferocity.
—School Library Journal

Aliens Get the Sniffles, Too! is a good add to picture book collections – we can never have enough sick day books!
—Mom Read It (blog)

The perfect addition to any stocking.
—Stephany's Sweet Life (blog)

From the Publisher

11/01/2017
PreS-Gr 2—In a galaxy far away, a little alien begins to sneeze and his parents try different ways to make him feel better. It starts with a big sneeze. A big, powerful, "AHHH-flying-saucer-CHOO," sneeze. Little Alien is sick, and being sick is especially miserable when you have two throats, five ears, and three noses. His mother and father try very hard to comfort him, but when not even a Milky Way Milkshake and a cool meteor shower can put a smile on his sneezy face, it's up to the Mars Rover, his furry, six-legged pet, to cheer Little Alien up with some silly cosmic antics. Anyone with a cold will find comfort in the company of this sick little alien as he sneezes with increasing ferocity. The text incorporates multitudes of extraterrestrial puns and jokes. The soft, muted color pencil illustrations feature a family of humanoid aliens and their strange, globular homes, along with a few slightly unearthly creatures like a rabbit with three ears and three eyes. Unfortunately the action and text are slightly disjointed and the sudden appearance of the "lunar decongestants" with their strange tools ends up being more frightening than comforting. VERDICT Recommended only for large collections or where there is a specific need for books about colds or aliens.—Laken Hottle, Providence Community Library

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