At the weekend Mum, Dad and I visited Planet Earth. I wanted to see a real live human. Dad had lent me his camera so I could take a photo of one. We landed at the zoo because that's where Mum said all sorts of earth animals lived. Follow Little Alien's adventures in his search for a human in this brilliantly inventive story! Find out which animal it is that the Alien family take home as their souvenir snap of a human being. Well, it didn't have webbed feet or wings, it didn't hop or have a tail, and it wasn't as tall as a giraffe Tremendously funny and incredibly fresh illustrations - this picture book will make children and adults laugh out loud. The Author: Neal Layton is a graduate of St Martins. "The Photo" is his first picture book. His second picture book, authored by Michael Rosen, is "Rover", publication July 1999. Neal lives in Eton, Windsor.

 

There are 32 pages in this book. This is a picture book. A picture book uses pictures and text to tell the story. The number of words varies from zero ('wordless') to around 1k over 32 pages. Picture books are typically aimed at young readers (age 3-6) but can also be aimed at older children (7+). This book was published 1999 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC .

Neal Layton was born in Chichester, West Sussex. Many of his ideas come he says from his childhood. In the past he has worked on a lettuce farm, in a chocolate factory, a teapot factory, a book shop and has delivered papers. He lives with his girlfriend who is also an artist.