General fiction (Children's/YA)
Eeek! The Runaway Alien
by Karen Inglis
Description
A boy, an alien and World Cup football. A match made in heaven for soccer fans aged 7-10! 'Laugh-out-loud funny!'
Eleven-year-old Charlie Spruit can't believe his luck when he opens his door to an alien one morning. Who is he? Why has he come? Charlie soon discovers that this alien has run away from space to Earth to be with him because he's soccer mad and the World Cup is on...!
'Eeek,' as Charlie decides to call him, takes up secret residence in Charlie's bedroom where he sleeps on the ceiling by night and pores over Charlie's football magazines and stickers by day. All is going surprisingly well until slimy sci-fi mad Sid Spiker, who lives out the back, spots Eeek through his telescope. Sid has his own plans for this alien, which bring surprises that no-one could have imagined...
Praise for Eeek!
Eeek! has been praised by teachers, children’s book editors, reading charities and parents as a great book for boys age 7-10, including reluctant readers, and several UK schools have adopted it for Year 3 class readers or children’s books clubs. Girls who love football love it too!
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Rights Information
The author owns all rights (text and illustration). In particular I am looking to sell translation rights and with World Cup approaching and general media attention around encouraging boys to read more.
Marketing Information
- Stocked by Gardners UK and in stock at several branches of Waterstones UK
- Sell-out signings in five branches of Waterstones in south-west London, twice over
- Numerous successful readings/sales/signings at school events in south-west London, as well as at an inner city school in support of the Get London Reading Campaign
- 72 library borrows in the UK in 2013
- Being used in at least three schools in the UK as part of Year 3 literacy or reluctant reader book club (these schools discovered the book independently via wholesalers or and contacted me to tell me they were using it)
- Needs to raise its profile in the USA and beyond!
Endorsements
- Selected by Julia Eccleshare, Children's Books Editor at the UK's The Guardian and The Literacy Trust (UK) for their Reluctant Readers' List on the LoveReading4KidsUK website
- 5 Stars from Louise Jordan, ex-Head Reader for Puffin UK and founder of The Writers' Advice Centre for Children's Books
- 5 Stars from reading charities
- Being used by the Beanstalk Reading Charity in London School as part of the Get London Reading Campaign
Reviews
Louise Jordan (ex-Head Reader for Puffin UK and found of The Writers' Advice Centre for Children's Books)
"Another great book from Karen Inglis for the 7/8 plus market. Like her previous novel 'The Secret Lake', Karen has kept 'Eeek!' to a manageable length. Too many books for this age group are so long that they tend to put off the less confident reader. It helps, as well, that it is illustrated which makes the text look both fun and manageable. I have had a great response to this book since featuring it on my own website."
LoveReading4KidsUK
"A boy, an alien and football - without any shadow of doubt it's a match made in heaven for boys in particular and if you have a reluctant reader in the house aged from 6-9 then you just might get him or her reading as a result of EEEK! Apart from the storyline being a real page-turner it's also laugh-out-loud funny. Just how and why a football mad alien turns up on Charlie's doorstep one day and stays with him will have you in stitches. Eeek may be fluorescent green with smoke coming out of his ears but just like ET he's a wonderfully loveable alien, but this time for the 21st century."
Amazon UK – 12 reviews, nearly all 5-Star http://www.amazon.co.uk/Eeek-Runaway-Alien-Karen-Inglis/dp/0956932339/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top
Goodreads reviews: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13516410-eeek-the-runaway-alien#other_reviews
Bibliographic Information
- Publisher/Imprint Well Said Limited / Well Said Press
- Publication Date February 2012
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9780956932334 / 0956932339
- FormatPaperback
- Primary Price 5.99 GBP
- Pages110
- ReadershipChildren
- Publish StatusPublished
- Page size8 x 5.25 inches (height x width) (203mm x 133mm)
- Illustration40 greyscale illustrations
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