Youth & Let's Get Together (Annotated)

The science fiction short story "Youth" by Isaac Asimov explores themes of innocence, discovery as well as interstellar relations, woven with an underlying story about beauty and alien life.

Red and Slim, two boys, encounter a couple of eerie creatures in the woods. These creatures are actually alien ambassadors that arrived on Earth to negotiate a treatiy, unknowingly. The boys say the creatures are animals and are considering selling them to a circus to earn money.

The aliens are having hig...