A Field Guide to Aliens: Intergalactic Worrywarts, Bubblonauts, Silver-Slurpers, and other Extra Terrestrials

by Johan Olander

Overview

A Field Guide to Aliens is the first truly comprehensive guide to Earth's extraterrestrial visitors and includes profiles of more than twenty-five types of aliens. With this essential field guide, you'll learn about each alien's origin, diet, and distinguishing features; check out their cool tech gadgets (from lasersaws to slime grenades); get the most up-to-date information on alien sightings; see the undeniable evidence of aliens on our planet (from a giant club found in the countryside to an oddly familiar helmet and mask left in a living room; and, find out how you can become an alienologist, too. Have you ever noticed strange words spelled out in the night sky? Do you know which alien can’t be alone? Are you sure that a Knutt has never played a prank on you? Find out all of that and more in this delightfully eerie collection of extraterrestrial lore.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781662522123
Publisher:	Amazon Publishing
Publication date:	01/14/2025
Pages:	60
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 1.25(h) x 9.00(d)
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

Author Johan Olander is a firm believer in monsters and aliens and will trust any report of sightings until proven false. When not out chasing aliens, Johan also works as a freelance writer and illustrator. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife and daughter.

Editorial Reviews

Monsterologist John Olander, having discovered that 45 percent of all monster sightings reported are actually alien sightings, has decided to follow up his Field Guide to Monsters…with a guidebook to aliens one might encounter on earth. Full-color, double-page spreads on twenty-seven aliens include information on what their names sound like in their native language (if they have one), their origin, diet, distinguishing features, technology, and a narrative of sightings of each species on Earth…This silly and gross ‘field guide’ will entertain just about any reluctant reader…Fans of the first guide will also love this one.” —VOYA

From the Publisher

Concluding after years of reports and direct observations that approximately 45 percent of the world's monsters are actually aliens, Olander, author of A Field Guide to Monsters (2007), offers illustrated notes on 28 types of interstellar interloper-from the harmless Intergalactic Worrywarts of Planet Insecura and sewage-eating Sliver-Slurpers to more ominous False Santas, robotic onesie-clad Bebies and, scariest of all, Boogie-doods (aka Discos) from Planet Funk. On pages designed to look like well-thumbed scrapbook leaves, each entry includes extensive comments on diet, distinguishing features and details of Close Encounters, all sandwiched between a carefully drawn full-"body" portrait and a set of quicker "eyewitness" sketches and supposed snapshots. Though no replacement for Andrew Donkins's Alien Encyclopedia: The Ultimate Alien A-Z (1999), this makes a worthy addition to our too-thin store of space-alien lore and will leave younger readers on the alert for glimpses of Clustors, Liverpudlins and other nonhuman visitors. (Fiction? 10-12)

Kirkus Reviews

This tongue-and-cheek follow-up to A Field Guide to Monsters is designed to look like a notebook that identifies 27 alien species, offering sketches and handwritten ethnographic notes. Charts contain information on the origin, diet, distinguishing features, sightings of, and use of technology for each specimen, which include "False Santas" (they closely resemble Santa Claus, but "are sterner looking and much less animated when seen up close") and "Disco," who "absorbs beats and rhythms through its feet and doesn't eat or drink." The outlandish menagerie is likely to inspire kids to invent their own alien species. Ages 8-12. (Apr.)

Publishers Weekly

Gr 3–6—This volume is similar to Olander's A Field Guide to Monsters (Marshall Cavendish, 2007)—a facsimile of a stained, doodle-filled scrapbook, full of sketches, text, and clippings by the author, a "senior monstrologist and alienologist." Extraterrestrials described herein include Cloudians, which, as their name suggests, conceal themselves by floating through the air and looking exactly like clouds except for their big round eyes and long flashing tongues. Another species is the Dolfini, who live in the oceans and look like dolphins with arms and legs. The descriptions of the aliens lack real imagination, as if they were fabricated quickly from lists of ideas. The colored drawings in various media are similarly so-so—most 11-year-olds who like to draw could create bogeys at least as creepy. Buy this one only if Monsters is a hit.—Walter Minkel, Austin Public Library, TX

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