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Paperback192 pages
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www.rosasquith.co.uk/Publisher
Piccadilly Press LtdSuitable for Ages
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20th August 2010ISBN
9781848120945Children's Author 'Like-for-Like' recommendations
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Letters from an Alien Schoolboy
Ros Asquith
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Shortlisted for the Roald Dahl Funny Prize 2011 and described as “a child’s version of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”. Piccadilly Press MD Brenda Gardner says, “We are delighted that Ros is on the shortlist for the Roald Dahl Funny Prize. She is one of funniest writers of today, and no-one is better at pinpointing the absurd in everyday life!”
This is the first in a terrific new series for 7+ year olds – both boys and girls. Packed with some hilarious illustrations and the story itself is a real page-turner. It features an alien who comes to spy on earth and in order to meld in disguises himself as a schoolboy. He thinks earthlings are very strange and having to wear clothes is almost the most strange thing of all. The story is told through a series of letters to his best friend and the story is full of humour and pace which is sure to appeal to even the most reluctant of readers.
Synopsis
Letters from an Alien Schoolboy by Ros AsquithFlowkwee is on a mission – he has to disguise himself as a schoolboy and spy on young earthlings, in order to help his father with his research.
Here are his letters to his best friend, in which he tells him all about his adventures. He describes the strange earthlings who have only one head, two peepers, and no aerials, lights, whirlers or even winkers! He has to wear things called clothes because the earthlings can’t be bothered to grow fur. And he discovers the fool-proof way to catch earthlings is to tell them to follow a sign saying ‘Free ice cream!’
The first in a hilarious new series for young readers.
About The Author
Ros says:
"I live with a jazz critic, two children and a hamster.
I am tall.
I am learning the violin.
I read a lot.
I like fudge.
I wanted to be an Apache when I grew up, but it didn't work out."
Ros is famous for her teenage fiction: she wrote and illustrated the best-selling Teenage Worrier series, published by Transworld, which have been translated in more than ten languages and, for the slightly younger reader, the Fab Four series, published by Orchard.
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