First Day on a Strange New Planet: Blast Off Boy and Blorp: First Day on a Strange New Planet (Hardcover, Library binding)

Sure, starting school can be tough, but it’s nothing compared to starting school on another planet! Blast Off Boy is an exchange student on the planet Meep, and right from the beginning, things don’t go so well. First, he has to sit next to a two-headed kid on the bus. Then he is attacked by the school lunch special. Oh well, at least he hasn’t been walking around all day with his space suit unzipped . . . oops! Back on Earth, Blorp is having his own problems fitting in. If he’s not freaking his classmates out in chemistry class, then he’s grossing them out at lunch. Will these weird Earth kids ever understand him? Follow the far-out adventures of two unlikely exchange students, Blast Off Boy and Blorp, as they each make their way through their first day on a strange new planet. A perfect bridge between picture books and chapter books, this hilarious adventure is written and illustrated throughout in far-out, full-color images by Dan Yaccarino.

Dan Yaccarino is an award-winning artist whose work has appeared in magazines, ad campaigns, and animation worldwide. He has written and illustrated many children’s books and is the creator of an upcoming animated television series.