Description: An interactive experience where the pages become an interstellar portal that allow Zrk and Blrg to meet an alien through the pages...who just happens to be the reader!
Review Quotes: [A] meta intergalactic romp. . . . The brightly colored, heavily black-outlined characters take center stage in Portis's eye-catching and varied compositions, as do their playful personalities. . . . The clever premise stands up to repeat readings--power up this interactive adventure for out-of-this-world storytimes.
--The Horn Book (starred review)
--Booklist (starred review) Will generate a lot of giggles. . . . Thickly outlined in black, the bold illustrations will show well to a large storytime. Portis provides extreme close-ups that give the artwork a surreal, Cubist feeling. . . .Zany, out-of-this-world fun.
--Kirkus Reviews [A] speculative metafictional romp. . . .Portis (A New Green Day) has cooked up something wonderfully weird and slyly relevant--both an interactive experience and a comic reminder that perspective is relative.
--Publishers Weekly