Some of the new SSYRA 3-5 books for 2020-2021
The new SSYRA lists (and FTR) have been announced and what a great job the committees did choosing books! I know the kids are going to be super excited to see what fun books there are to read this year! I'd read (and reviewed) a few of them already, including Inkling, but there were a lot more that I hadn't read. Here are two that I was able to read this weekend.
The first one is called Klawde: Evil Alien Warlord Cat #1 by Johnny Marciano and Emily Chenoweth. It's about a cat named Klawde, who lives on a planet called Lyttyrboks and it turns out that he's a pretty terrible cat. He's been dethroned by General Ffangg and has only one loyal minion left-Floofee-Fyr. He has been banished to Earth, a planet known to be desolate and inhabited by ogres. Lucky for Klawde, he ends up in an ogre's house that actually wants him to be there-Raj's family has just moved to Oregon (where Klawde lands) and Raj has always really wanted a cat. Raj convinces his parents to let him keep the cat. Klawde is dismayed at the lack of technology on earth but happy that the ogres (people) don't really want to eat him and starts making a plan to go back to Lyttyrboks. It's a really funny story that switches between Klawde's evil voice and Raj's voice. There's also some terrific art work that gives a real comic book feel to the story. I think the kids are going to love this one.
And here's a book trailer for the book.
The second one is also funny. It's called "Olga and the Smelly thing from Nowhere" by Elise Gravel. It's about Olga who loves animals. Olga would really like as many pets as she could have so when a new one turns up, she's only too happy to give it a home. Unfortunately, it smells terrible and it doesn't do much but she loves it nonetheless. When Meh (that's what Olga names the animal, since that's what it says) disappears, Olga assumes it has gone back to it's home planet but it turns out, Meh is a lot closer than she thought and Olga is very surprised at who has taken an interest in Meh. There are a lot of illustrations, enough so that one kind of person might call it a graphic novel. whatever it's called, kids are going to love this quirky little story about a girl biologist and alien pet, Meh.
The first one is called Klawde: Evil Alien Warlord Cat #1 by Johnny Marciano and Emily Chenoweth. It's about a cat named Klawde, who lives on a planet called Lyttyrboks and it turns out that he's a pretty terrible cat. He's been dethroned by General Ffangg and has only one loyal minion left-Floofee-Fyr. He has been banished to Earth, a planet known to be desolate and inhabited by ogres. Lucky for Klawde, he ends up in an ogre's house that actually wants him to be there-Raj's family has just moved to Oregon (where Klawde lands) and Raj has always really wanted a cat. Raj convinces his parents to let him keep the cat. Klawde is dismayed at the lack of technology on earth but happy that the ogres (people) don't really want to eat him and starts making a plan to go back to Lyttyrboks. It's a really funny story that switches between Klawde's evil voice and Raj's voice. There's also some terrific art work that gives a real comic book feel to the story. I think the kids are going to love this one.
And here's a book trailer for the book.
The second one is also funny. It's called "Olga and the Smelly thing from Nowhere" by Elise Gravel. It's about Olga who loves animals. Olga would really like as many pets as she could have so when a new one turns up, she's only too happy to give it a home. Unfortunately, it smells terrible and it doesn't do much but she loves it nonetheless. When Meh (that's what Olga names the animal, since that's what it says) disappears, Olga assumes it has gone back to it's home planet but it turns out, Meh is a lot closer than she thought and Olga is very surprised at who has taken an interest in Meh. There are a lot of illustrations, enough so that one kind of person might call it a graphic novel. whatever it's called, kids are going to love this quirky little story about a girl biologist and alien pet, Meh.
Here's a book trailer for this one too!
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