Judy was grumpily pushing her mother's trolley around the supermarket - she hated shopping. Suddenly she heard a peculiar fizzing noise coming from the gap between two freezers. And there, hiding in the dark, was a creature like a large green snail wearing a red jersey. "Please don't tell anyone," said the Martian. "They might be unkind to me."

 

This is volume 76 in Red Stories .

There are 48 pages in this book. This book was published 1993 by Hachette Children's Group .

Frank Rodgers has written and illustrated over sixty books for children. His most recent work is a swashbuckling Pirate Penguin series. Penelope Lively was born in Cairo Egypt. She came to England when she was 12 years old. She went to school in Sussex and studied at Oxford. She has written many award winning adult and children's books and now lives in London. She has four grandchildren.