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They have also been spotted by other telescopes around the world, making them unlikely to be hoaxes perpetrated by mischievous Earth-based astronomy students. They are close to Sun-like stars, and so could be emanating from a planetary system like our own. In other words, there is a vanishingly small — but not zero — possibility that one of these radio signals could have come from an extraterrestrial civilisation.

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Preview — Breaking News by David Biedrzycki. Alien Alert by David Biedrzycki. The bears from Breaking News: Bear Alert and Bears to the Rescue are back, and this time they're extraterrestrial. Hilarity and chaos ensue as scouts, scientists, street vendors, and the mayor try to put their own spin on the story.

Intrepid but bumbling reporter Chad Newsworth Bears in space! Intrepid but bumbling reporter Chad Newsworthy covers it all, searching for the truth: Why did aliens snatch up these animals? It's someone special's birthday!

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Sep 26, Sam Chamblin rated it it was amazing. This book is adorable animals are abducted by aliens and humans are left wondering what happened and if the aliens will return the animals! The book is told like a news program super cute Declan laughed the entire book. Oct 04, Pop Bop rated it really liked it Shelves: A Total Hoot It's pretty hard for a picture book to score high marks across the board - story, drawings, captions, humor, clever bits for the adults - but this book comes awfully close.

One night an alien spaceship beams up the Bear family, and a wide collection of woods creatures, zoo animals, and farm stock. Chad Newsworthy appears on the scene to broadcast the story live. That's a fine A Total Hoot It's pretty hard for a picture book to score high marks across the board - story, drawings, captions, humor, clever bits for the adults - but this book comes awfully close.

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That's a fine story, not at all scary, and a bit of clever fun. But here's the best part - the narration of the story is deadpan funny, with some silliness for little readers and some more subtle silliness and wordplay for older readers and parents. The drawings are crisp, clear, colorful and easy for a little guy to understand.

The drawings don't just illustrate the story, they sell the story and support all of the jokes. Indeed, these are some of the most expressive picture book drawings I've seen in a while. The kidnapped animals look confused at first, delighted at the party, and happy and tired by the end. The local citizens are puzzled, upset, and then relieved, and some of their expressions are priceless.

A group "photo" of some at-the-scene girl scout campers being interviewed for TV manages to capture different girls who are bored, excited, shell-shocked, angry, upset, distracted, or confused. How do you get all of that across in a simple picture book? So, I picked this up on a lark, because the baby bear looked cute. What I got was a humorous, sly, and entertaining schooling on how to draw a funny picture book.

And what a strange morning it is! According to eyewitnesses, last night an alien spaceship snatched up bears, moose, rabbits, and squirrels from this very meadow. This half-eaten carrot is a sure sign that some of these creatures were taken away right in the middle of dinner.

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A scout troop was camping in a nearby field and saw the whole thing. Girls, what exactly did you see? We totally freaked out! And it wasn't just our farmer friends. Down the road, a farmer told us this: Our chickens are so scared, they've stopped laying eggs. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher. In space, no one can hear you party.


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  5. Punctuating his story with special news reports complete with crawl feeds, Biedrzycki returns to the form that served him so well in Bear Alert and Bears to the Rescue Here, our three bear heroes find themselves unexpectedly sucked into a UFO along with a strange assortment of wildlife as well as farm and zoo animals. The action then cuts between the experiences of the startled creatures and the frenzied Channel 3 News reports for the people back on Earth. When at last the aliens land and discharge their guests, it becomes clear that these space denizens are more akin to Close Encounters of the Third Kind folks than Independence Day meanies: All the disembarking creatures sport goody bags from a birthday party that was truly out of this world as memorialized on the rear endpapers.

    Rather surprisingly, the TV-news format feels fresh as ever, and Biedrzycki knows how to use its storytelling tropes to the book's best advantage. His Adobe Photoshop illustrations keep the action hopping and include such contemporary touches as smartphones and chyrons even as old-fashioned test patterns and a predigital TV with cable box atop make an occasional appearance.