The Aliens Have Landed

by Kenn Nesbitt, Bruce Lansky (Editor), Margeaux Lucas (Illustrator)

If aliens ever visit Earth, they'll definitely want to take this book home with them. No other souvenir will do after they've seen the world through Kenn Nesbitt's eyes -- world full of mashed potatoes on the ceiling, kangaruplets, skunks in love, antigravity machines, and a jillion other imaginative subjects. No matter what planet you live on, you'll want this book, too...it's packed with far-out, funny, clever poems guaranteed to give you a galactic case of the giggles!

Genres: Poetry, Picture Books

96 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2001

About the author

Kenn Nesbitt is the author of several collections of funny poetry for kids, including Revenge of the Lunch Ladies, When the Teacher Isn't Looking, and The Aliens Have Landed at Our School! His poems have appeared many bestselling anthologies, including every book in the popular Kids Pick the Funniest Poems series, and anthologies from Scholastic with nearly 2 million copies in print. He is also the creator of the world's most popular children's poetry website on the Internet.

Reviews

[A. Mickey Perkins · Rating 2 out of 5]

I don't know why I thought this book would be funnier than it was, but I did, and it wasn't. Don't get me wrong, it wasn't bad. It just wasn't as good as I hoped. A solid eh, okay.

[Rachel · Rating 2 out of 5]

There are few stand-out poems in this collection and most read as a compilation of lists (e.g. quirky names of students in one poem, possible illnesses in another). While these techniques may work successfully in one or two poems, Nesbitt's increased dependency on such wordplay and similar linguistic tricks breeds boredom instead of life into this poetry collection. Not recommended.

[Ayana Mishelle · Rating 5 out of 5]

kangarupets" some pretty tricky words !!! this book is great for imagination. students will read something really fun. sounding out words in this book may be hard. Really good readers for this one have them do the five finger test first.

[Beth · Rating 3 out of 5]

SO cute!