LC

A lot of people are familiar with Mercer Mayer. He's written and illustrated a lot of books. And I mean a lot. I think his most famous are the Little Critter books. He writes them at a few different ability levels and they basically tell the story of Little Critter as he experiences different things or explains his life. Well imagine how excited I was to see a Little Critter graphic novel! And then imagine how quickly that excitement died away when I saw that not only is the story not actually written by Mayer (but Erica Farber) and that they had taken Little Critter's character and turned him into a tye-dye t-shirt-wearing, shaggy-haired, would-be teenager who goes by the simple acronym "LC". And then, while the book itself had a point, the story didn't. I say this because the book's goal is to teach the reader a few things about the solar system and universe by introducing them to a few facts, some included in the story, some inserted as asides. That's very clear. The story of The Alien from Outer Space though, is Little Cri--LC telling his friends some bogus story about a UFO landing while they're camped out waiting to see a comet in his backyard. In the end it appears he and his sister are in cahoots to play a small prank on his friends...what? Where did that even come from? I don't know and sadly, I don't really care.