"HUSH, LITTLE ALIEN"

by Daniel S. Kirk ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 1, 1999

Kirk (Bigger, 1998, etc.) spins out an extraterrestrial version of the familiar lullaby, featuring a four-armed father promising his banana-colored little one, among other prizes, a shooting star, an astronaut (against the astronaut's wishes, it appears), a laser rifle, tools to build a spaceship and, finally, a good-night kiss. Giving his aliens the look of hard-shelled retro toys with large liquid eyes, the author develops a silent plotline--the little alien builds the spaceship because he's melted the old one with his new laser--as they move from a near-Earth orbit to the bottle-strewn Milky Way. It's a bedtime journey as loving, if not quite as soporific, as the original.

Pub Date: Sept. 1, 1999

ISBN: ---

Page Count: 32

Publisher: Hyperion

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: July 15, 1999

Categories: CHILDREN'S