The Trouble with Earth
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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Author, Illustrator: Alex Latimer
Alex Latimer is a South African writer and illustrator living in Cape Town. His picture books are quirky and fun and full of humor. Alex won the Hampshire Picture Book Award, the CELI Read Aloud Book Award, and has been shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize.
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The Trouble with Earth
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… View available downloads →
Meet the Publisher: Andersen Press
For this month’s Meet the Publisher, we are featuring our long-time publishing partner Andersen Press! UK-based Andersen was the first publisher to partner with Lerner oh so many years ago, and we are thrilled that they’ve stuck around! The Andersen catalog now features over 100 picture… View →
Reviews
Kirkus Reviews
“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
Foreword Reviews
“A lesson on kindness and an ode to nature merge in this whimsical picture book about the planet we call home.”—Foreword Reviews