Aliens For Breakfast by Jonathan Etra and Stephanie Spinner Illustrated by Steve Bjokman

 

Title: Aliens For Breakfast

Author: Jonathan Etra and Stephanie Spinner 

Illustrated: Steve Bjorkman

Genre: Science Fiction

Award: 1991 Bluebonnet Winner

Ages: 7-9 Years old

Summary:

This book is about a boy name, Richard Bickerstaff who has not eaten breakfast for ten years. When, Richard finally decides to sit down to eat a bowl of cereal early in the morning, an alien from planet Ganoob, climbed out of his cereal bowl. A tiny and talkative alien, called Aric comes out of his cereal bowl, and explains that he has come to save the Earth from the evil alien, Dranes. However, when Aric comes to defeat Dranes, there had been another alien, called Dorf, who had invaded planet Earth. Richard and Aric, then tries to defeat the aliens at breakfast, the aliens at lunch, and the aliens at dinner.

Book Evaluation:

1) I would recommend this book to my students because this book would be an excellent choice for children, who are learning to read chapter books because these chapters are pretty short, and they have pictures too. Also, kids love actions, and I can see them enjoying this type of book.

2) I would recommend this book from second grade to fourth grade level.

3) I would use this book in the unit of Science. As a class, we can create an experiment, in which creates an explosion, and I can explain to them the word explosion.