cover image Blue Aliens!: An Adventure in Color

Blue Aliens!: An Adventure in Color

Tony Porto. Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, $14.95 (32pp) ISBN 978-0-316-61359-0

Tony Porto and the creative minds at 3CD add a new color to their palette in Blue Aliens! An Adventure in Color, a follow-up to last year's Get Red! An Adventure in Color. Convinced that aliens are devouring everything blue on Earth, the unseen narrator steers readers through a day at school. The lurid, pop-art-style images that help guide the frenetic path of this tale perfectly complement the feverish narration, delivered in the voice of an excitable child (who is trying to ""stop my imagination from being `overactive' ""). There are enough sly puns and bits of trivia here to make one blue in the face.