The Horn Book Guide

EASY READERS

Arnold, Tedd

Fly Guy and the Alienzz

32 pp. | Scholastic/Cartwheel | April, 2018 | Trade ISBN 978-0-545-66318-2 $6.99

(3) K-3 Fly Guy series. With help from his pet, Fly Guy, Buzz makes a movie about a space-alien attack unleashed on the "Secret Hero Fort." In easy-to-read text, the silly movie-within-the-story meanders in an authentically childlike way, and Arnold's cartoony illustrations cleverly zoom in on the action and back out to show a smartphone filming homemade paper dolls and other toys on Buzz's desk. Lots of fun (or, as Fly Guy says, "FUNZZIE") for new readers.

Reviewer: Katrina Hedeen