Another Day in the Milky Way
David Milgrim, . . Putnam, $15.99 (32pp) ISBN 978-0-399-24548-0
The other day, I woke up on the wrong planet," claims Monty, the boy narrator of this reverie. "It happens to me every once in a while." His mother has three heads, and she sends him off with a stack of identical math books, calling, "Have a nice day at school... Don't eat anyone." Accompanied by his doglike pet, which has antennae, pink stripes and a droopy conical nose, Monty sits under a blue tree and attempts "to remember how I got home the other times." Finally he gets assistance from a horse (which turns out to be a donkey in disguise). and asks for help from a stargazing sage who looks wise but mistakes the boy for the pizza delivery guy. At last Monty recalls that if he falls asleep, he'll awaken in his usual bedroom. Milgrim's (
Reviewed on: 01/15/2007
Genre: Children's