UFO Diary [Hardcover]

Satoshi Kitamura (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1989

A UFO stops on Earth and engages in an afternoon romp with a young boy. When evening comes, both the boy and the alien must go home, but the UFO departs with a gift from the boy--a perfect token of its visit to Earth. Full color.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

In the vast blue heavens the Earth twirls silently, alone except for one tiny spacecraft. From impenetrable darkness the bell - shaped spaceship plummets toward the blazing white arc of the Earth's atmosphere. In cleverly designed panoramic strips, the many faces of Earth's topography are observed from a high vantage point. The ship hovers until it spies an unknown creature in the person of a small, pale boy. The boy befriends the alien (whom we never actually see) and acts as a tour guide, introducing the visitor to the Earth's flora and fauna. Afterward, the boy is given a dizzying ride in the UFO before being deposited safely at home. This simple plot is handled in a most unusual way, since the book is initially set in space and unfolds through the eyes of an alien viewing Earth for the first time. The watercolors sparkle with intense clarity and convey both the splendor of the cosmos and that of our own planet. Ages 3-up.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About the Author

Satoshi Kitamura was born in 1956 in Tokyo. Not formally trained as an artist, at the age of nineteen he began to do commercial art in Japan and, later, London. He won the Mother Goose Award for his first picture book, Angry Arthur, in collaboration with Hiawyn Oram, and in 2000 was the Smarties runner-up for Me and My Cat? --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 28 pages
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 1st Edition edition (October 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0374380260
• ISBN-13: 978-0374380267
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.9 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,196,348 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars great book for teaching, October 10, 2009

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This review is from: UFO Diary (Paperback)

This is a great book for teaching the comprehension skill of questioning. I use it as a think aloud.

4.0 out of 5 stars "A special book with an appeal across a wide age range" SCHOOL LIBRARIAN, August 20, 2007

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E. A. Mullen (Dublin, Ireland) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: UFO Diary (Paperback)

This is a good one. It leaves everyone pondering quietly for a while - due in part to its dreamy quality. The extremely good artwork is highly stylized, the story is well written and nice to read out loud.