The Trouble with Earth

by Alex Latimer (Author) Alex Latimer (Illustrator)

The Trouble with Earth
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Reading Level: 2nd − 3rd Grade
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Why didn't the other planets invite Earth to their vacation? Soon they'll find out the wonderful truth about Earth's "fleas" and change their minds . . .

Earth turns up on the vacation she wasn't invited to and finds all the other planets in the solar system in the hot tub--even Pluto! Then she discovers exactly why: it looks like she has fleas! Yuck. Earth asks everyone to take a look inside her atmosphere, and they're amazed by what they see . . . birds, fish, creatures galore, and yes, even fleas.

The Trouble with Earth is the perfect story to teach us to be kind and less quick to judge others.

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Let’s hear it for Earth: The third planet from the sun has plenty to cheer about. 

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"Children will enjoy this cute U.K. import's thought-provoking, life-affirming, conservationist premise, expressed with breezy, rhyming verse; they'll also learn some very basic facts about the planets in the process."—Kirkus Reviews

Alex Latimer
Alex is a South African writer and illustrator living in Cape Town. He has a degree in English and Philosophy and has written and illustrated for many major brands across the globe. Alex's picture books are quirky and fun and full of humor that appeals to both children and adults. He has won the Hampshire Picture Book Award, the CELI Read Aloud Book Award and has been shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize. His books include Am I Yours?, The Duck Never Blinks, Never Follow a Dinosaur, and The Boy Who Called Ninja.
Classification
Fiction
ISBN-13
9798765625293
Lexile Measure
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Guided Reading Level
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Publisher
Andersen Press
Publication date
February 06, 2024
Series
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BISAC categories
JUV039060 - Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Friendship
JUV039230 - Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Bullying
JUV053020 - Juvenile Fiction | Science Fiction | Space Exploration
Library of Congress categories
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