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The Boy Who Cried Alien

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By Marilyn Singer

Illustrated by Brian Biggs

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$17.99

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$19.99 CAD

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Hardcover

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Hardcover $17.99 $19.99 CAD

This is The Boy Who Cried Wolf like you’ve never seen it before: with tentacles, wigs, and a secret code language that kids can decipher. Larry the Liar must help these friendly extra-terrestrials refuel their ship so they can get back home. But will the townspeople believe his intergalactic tale of glory?

This hilarious reimagining uses meticulously composed verse, alternating points of view, and comic book elements to give the story loads of color, humor and visual interest. Veteran children’s book author Marilyn Singer teams up with Brian Biggs, the illustrator of Shredder Man, Beastly Rhymes, Brownie and Pearl, and Everything Goes: On Land to create the best interstellar tall tale ever.

On Sale
Mar 20, 2012
Page Count
48 pages
ISBN-13
9780786838257

Marilyn Singer

About the Author

Marilyn Singer is the author of more than one hundred books for children and young adults, including Have You Heard About Lady Bird?: Poems About Our First LadiesRutherford B., Who Was He?: Poems About Our PresidentsFeel the Beat!: Dance Poems that Zing from Salsa to SwingMirror MirrorEcho Echo and Monster Museum. She lives with her husband and a variety of creatures in Brooklyn, New York, and Washington, Connecticut. Visit her at http://www.marilynsinger.net.


Ryan McAmis is a designer and illustrator whose clients have included the Washington Post, British GQ, Esquire UK, Politico, the Wall Street Journal, NYU, the Observer, Glamour, New Statesman, InStyle, National Journal, Soho House London, Les Echos, La Vanguardia, Mother London, Apple, and the Economist. Ryan is based in Brooklyn, New York, where he is currently at work building a miniature scale model of an Italian Gothic cathedral. Find out more at ryanmcamis.com.

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