Another Day in the Milky Way
by:
David Milgrim (author)
Monty’s world seems a little different this morning. For one thing, he can’t help noticing his mother suddenly has three heads. And is serving liver flakes for breakfast. Then there are the unusual animals he encounters, who all seem to be talking and . . . wearing costumes? There’s no way around...
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Monty’s world seems a little different this morning. For one thing, he can’t help noticing his mother suddenly has three heads. And is serving liver flakes for breakfast. Then there are the unusual animals he encounters, who all seem to be talking and . . . wearing costumes? There’s no way around it—Monty has definitely woken up on the wrong planet. The problem is, he has no idea how to get home. He needs advice. But from whom? The scatterbrained donkey? The no-nonsense ant? Or the old man on the mountaintop? Readers will delight in joining Monty’s journey through this oddball alternate universe, packed with funny details.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780399245480 (0399245480)
Publish date: February 1st 2007
Publisher: Putnam Juvenile
Pages no: 32
Edition language: English
Ceridwen both alerted me to this book and said what it so brilliantly does. There are many things that can drive me crazy about the stories pitched at children, and perhaps Horrible Thing About Kids' Stories #2 is "The Lazy Deployment of Arbitrary and Tediously Familiar Narrative Conflicts." (This...
When you live with small children, you are often subjected to all sorts of media you would gladly ignore. Because I am cold-hearted, I have an absolute zero tolerance policy toward children's music, the Berenstein Bears are completely banished, and Rainbow Fish makes me want to fry him in butter. Th...
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