A Field Guide to Aliens: Intergalactic Worryworts, Bubblonauts, Sliver-Slurpers, and Other Extraterrestrials

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.)