Blue Aliens! An Adventure in Color

by Tony Porto

When everything that is blue, from blueberries to blue jeans, begins to go colorless, a young boy is determined to find out who is behind such a dirty deed that is greatly altering the colorful world in which he lives.

Genres: Picture Books

32 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 2003

Reviews

[Jackie · Rating 3 out of 5]

A crazy, convoluted story about aliens and the blue things they've taken. Staying up late to watch a scary movie, not studying for a test, and an over-active imagination will not make up for doing poorly on a test...as every teacher knows who's heard every excuse imaginable.

Blue Aliens!: An Adventure in Color sneaks some facts about nature, animals, geography and weather into the mixed-up story.

[Krista the Krazy Kataloguer · Rating 5 out of 5]

The pictures make the story!

[Cara · Rating 3 out of 5]

I wish this had covered more than blue and green.

[Julie · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is quite an ambitious "picture" book, in the sense that each page as a footnote on the bottom that offers related-to-the-narrative facts in trivia-size chunks. So this book is a challenge for read-aloud because it's double-layered: there's the fictional story on the middle of the page and then there's the nonfiction digressions on the bottom. This book, if read aloud, has the benefit of inspiring some great tangential discussions, but it also has the potential to split a child's attention and send it shooting off into unrelated tangents that will break up the flow of the story. This one would have to be read at least twice--once for the story and once for the trivia. It may be difficult to hold a reluctant reader's attention with this one, as well.