What's Everybuggy Reading: Sam
Aliens from Earth
written by Mary Batten
illustrated by Beverly J. Doyle
Peachtree, 2003
In this month’s Spider, I was SuperExcited about the SuperCroc. When I first heard about SuperCroc, I thought it was just a SuperFigment of Spider's imagination. But boy, was I wrong. SuperCroc was real—so real that it ate dinosaurs! I didn't know that anything in the world EVER ate dinosaurs! That's exciting stuff.
Since I'm a pretty shy caterpillar, I wanted to learn more about other animals with this kind of take-charge attitude. Aliens from Earth is about living things that invade another living thing’s ecosystem. (An ecosystem is a natural community of plants and animals living with one another.) The book starts off by saying that aliens are everywhere. Wait . . . ALIENS ARE EVERYWHERE? But before you start looking for green, four-eyed Martians in your backyard, you should know that "alien" also means "to come from the outside."
Don't worry, I'm not going to invade Spider's web or anything. But I'm definitely planning my SuperAlienSam costume for Halloween.
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