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Wall St Journal -Best Children’s Books of 2018

January 14, 2019 by Simon James

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The Boy From Mars‘ is a Best Children’s Book of 2018 as selected by the The Wall St Journal. Here is the review:

“The Boy Who Went to Mars” (Candlewick, 30 pages, $16.99), a child dismayed by his mother’s departure on a business trip relieves his feelings by jumping into a cardboard rocket and blasting off. When the spaceship returns to Earth, as we see in Simon James’s engaging ink-and-watercolor illustrations, a small “Martian” emerges wearing rubber gloves and a colander on his head. “I’ve come to explore your sibilization,” the Martian tells the boy’s family in a book that is a perfect equipoise of wit, tenderness and empathy.

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