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The book from far away

"A child busy reading in a treehouse spots a family who seems to have just arrived on Earth for a picnic. The youngest member of the alien family holds a mind-bendingly strange object. Could it be a book from outer space?"--

Main Author:	Handy, Bruce (Author)
Other Authors:	Benbassat, Julie (Illustrator)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	[East Rutherford, New Jersey] : Minerva, 2023.
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Books and reading > Juvenile fiction. Human-alien encounters > Juvenile fiction. Science fiction > Juvenile. Wordless picture books. Picture books.

Summary:	"A child busy reading in a treehouse spots a family who seems to have just arrived on Earth for a picnic. The youngest member of the alien family holds a mind-bendingly strange object. Could it be a book from outer space?"--
Physical Description:	1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
ISBN:	9781662651335 1662651333
Author Notes:	Bruce Handy is the author of The Happiness of a Dog with a Ball in its Mouth , illustrated by Hyewon Yum. He is also a journalist, essayist, critic, and the author of Wild Things- The Joy of Reading Children's Literature as an Adult . He lives in New York with his wife, the novelist Helen Schulman. Julie Benbassat is an illustrator based in New Jersey. Since graduating from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2019, Julie has created illustrations for The New Yorker , the New York Times , and NPR, among others. She is the illustrator of The Screaming Hairy Armadillo and 76 Other Animals with Weird, Wild Names (Workman, 2020). This is her first picture book.

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