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Smallcomb, Pam

Earth to Clunk

32 pp. | Dial | May, 2011 | Trade ISBN 978-0-8037-3439-5 $16.99
(3) K-3 Illustrated by Joe Berger. Pressured by his teacher, the narrator becomes pen pals with an alien. The two exchange ostensibly off-putting gifts that end up cementing an unlikely friendship. The stranger the action the straighter Smallcomb plays it, making the story all the funnier. Berger keeps up with the text, right down to depicting the "disgusting glob of something" on the boy's sister's head.
Reviewer: Nell Beram

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