HORUS'S HORRIBLE DAY
Shana Corey, Author, Mark Teague, Illustrator , illus. by Mark Teague. Scholastic $14.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-439-26220-0
Young Martians start elementary school in this reassuring comedy, the debut of the First Graders from Mars series, in which the hero longs for the good old days of "martiangarten." Horus, a froggy-looking child with prehensile tentacles on his chartreuse head, becomes confused in his new classroom. "Where are the snooze mats? Where are the snacks?" he asks. "First graders are too big for those things," scoffs a reptilian girl with lilac hair. Horus's pink-and-green-spotted teacher (who "had eyes in the back of her head. And in the front. And on the sides") purses her lips with concern. Corey (
Reviewed on: 07/16/2001
Release date: 08/01/2001
Genre: Children's
Hardcover - 32 pages - 9780439262200
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