Aliens in Underpants Save the World

Text: Claire Freedman

Illustrations: Ben Cort

Year: 2009

Publisher: Simon and Schuster, London

Age: 4 - 8 years

No. of Pages: 32

Book Type: Picture Book

ISBN:  978 1 84738 302 0

If you've ever been mystified by missing underpants, this book is about to provide you with the most likeliest answer to your query.

One fine day, aliens (who love pinching Earth-made underpants) spot a meteorite hurtling towards the planet. Earthlings can only watch haplessly but the aliens jump into action and save the day while also getting to save their underpants resource.

It's hilarious. The girls giggled all along as they’d never ever read about underpants in a book. I’m pretty sure, we’ll hear this book for a longtime.

Excerpt

Back home the aliens all cheered,

“Our pants plan was fantastic,

We saved the Earth and underpants,

With pingy pants elastic!”

I Love You, Little One

By Nancy Tafuri

Year: 1998

Publisher: Scholastic Press, New York

Age: 2 – 5 years

No. of Pages: 32

Book Type: Bedtime, Picture Book

ISBN: 0 590 92159 2

Here’s a beautiful “I Love You” book.

I loved this book because it borrows profoundly from nature - coolness of a river, shelter in a pond and the snugness of earth. It also celebrates other unique attributes of our world like the strength of a mountain and constancy of stars.

It might be a mite too intense for a little child but it might just find resonance somewhere in their little hearts. :-)

Excerpt

“I love you as the stars love you,

Constant and bright above you,

Giving you joy and peace and wonder.”