Bėkit! Artinasi monstras iš Rytų!

Baby Aliens #8

by Pamela Butchart, Thomas Flintham (Illustrator), Ieva Šakelaitė (Translator)

Izzy and friends are excited! The snow is falling fast and they’re hoping they’ll all be sent home early. But then they hear weird noises in the playground, and find a big footprint in the snow… And that’s when they know! There’s a YETI in the playground and it’s HUNGRY!

Laugh-out-loud fun from Blue Peter Award winners Pamela Butchart and Thomas Flintham.

Read more of Izzy’s adventures!

Baby Aliens Got My Teacher
The Spy Who Loved School Dinners
My Headteacher Is a Vampire Rat
Attack of the Demon Dinner Ladies
To Wee Or Not To Wee!
There’s a Werewolf In My Tent!
The Phantom Lollipop Man!

Genres: Childrens, Middle Grade, Fiction

288 pages, Hardcover

First published October 4, 2018

About the author

As a child, Pamela was lucky enough to grow up in a house full of pets and go to a primary school where lots of spooky and weird things happened (well, in her imagination at least). As a student, Pamela’s student jobs included: fishwife, teaching basketball in America, phlebotomist and Artist Liaison for a (really bad) Abba tribute band. Now, when she’s not writing or going out and about meeting readers, Pamela teaches philosophy to teenagers.

Her top selling stories include The Spy Who Loved School Dinners which won the Blue Peter Best Story Award and My Head Teacher is a Vampire Rat which won The Children’s Book Award. Two of her books, Petunia Peri and There’s a Werewolf in My Tent, were shortlisted for the Lollies – the Laugh Out Loud Awards.

Pamela lives in Dundee with her baby boy and their two awesome cats, Bear & Carlos. If she wasn’t working as a writer and a teacher she’d like to open a luxury hotel for stray cats.

Reviews

[Chris Callaghan]

Anyone who spent some time in schools during this year's Beast from the East will find a huge amount of fun in this wonderfully beastly tale. Funny, frantic and freezing.

[Albie Seymour]

This book has 274 pages and I read this book in one morning and I loved it! 😍

[Elspeth Hall]

WELL put it this way, my daughter bought this the day it came out and has read it at least 3 times every day since.

Yet another wonderful adventure of imagination fuelled by the children's half grasp of information. If I could give more stars I would.

[Imogen Fremaux]

I really loved this book and finished it in under a day, couldn’t put it down. I found the ending super funny and unexpected. Can’t wait to read more books written by this author.

[Laura Feldon]

This is the second book i have read in this series. Not my favourite stoeyline however still funny and an enjoyable read for Mr 9.

[Matt Trussell]

My fourth grader is currently reading this and I decided to follow along with them. It's written from the POV of a child so it flows like listening to a child tell a story. It made me laugh out loud a couple times and I think we'll be looking for more in the series.

[Simon]

Great fun. Written from the perspective of a school girl when the beast from the east is on its way! A lovely book for youngsters!

[Karina]

God, this is hilarious!

Remember yourself at eight years old? How when David said the witch we painted in school for Hallowe'en would come alive at midnight, and you said 'prove it' and he said he would pick you up in his helicopter at the end of your road that night and fly you to school to show you? And the only part you had difficulty believing was the witch-coming-alive-at-midnight part?

*ahem* just me then? ok.

Yeah - this book really brought me back! Everything is so dramatic and BIG EYES and BIG NOSTRILS and kids convinced that adults know stuff they are keeping from them (true) and that it involves monsters, aliens and yetis (n0t so true).

Tremendous fun for both child and parent alike - it absolutely cracked me up.

[Knygos_pjuvis Lina]

Valio, sniegas už lango!!! O ši puiki "Mokyklos detektyvų" serijos dalis kaip tik apie žiemos malonumus ir pavojus. Mes su Pranu visada labai laukiame šios serijos knygų ir linksmosios Izos bei jos šutvės nuotykių. Ir šį kartą - tai pasakojimas apie sniego žmogų! Kaip visada, įtraukiantis ir smagus detektyvas mažiesiems smalsuoliams.

Knygoje detektyvų ketvertukas pakliuvo į siaubingai rimtą bėdą: už lango siaučia pūga, visi įstrigę mokykloje, o kieme lyg niekur nieko vaikštinėja sniego žmogus! Šie linksmi, išradingi ir pašėlę ketvirtaklasiai pasiryžę viskam, kad tik sučiuptų sniego žmogų ir išgelbėtų mokyklą. Iza ir jos draugai Zakas, Džudė bei Meisė įsivelia į nesusipratimų virtinę, kuri juos nuneša į fantazijų ir vaizduotės šalį. Ir taip žiemos pūga netikėtai virsta siaubingu monstru iš rytų!

Jau ne kartą minėjau, kad man ir Pranui patinka ši knygų serija, tad ir ši dalis ne išimtis! Kiekvienoje serijos knygoje dalyvauja koks nors klasikinis monstras: vampyras, vilkolakis, vaiduoklis ar sniego žmogus, apie kurį ir sukasi visa istorija. Taip šios knygos gali tapti išsamiu pradžiamoksliu ar pirmąja pažintimi su klasikiniais siaubūnais. Nors jie čia veikiau linksmi, įdomūs ir sukelia daugiau juoko negu siaubo. Taip be didelių šiurpuliukų susukama įdomi ir nuotaikinga istorija vaikams ir tėvams.

Be to, tekstas puikiai pritaikytas mažiesiems skaitytojams. Šriftas gana didelis, yra žodžių didžiosiomis raidėmis, tarpai tarp raidžių didesni. Istorija praturtinta grafiškais Thomo Flinthamo piešiniais, todėl neprailgsta ir vaiką sudomina ilgiau džiaugtis knyga.

Šią knygų seriją rekomenduojame smalsiems, linksmas istorijas mėgstantiems vaikams. Detektyvų ir monstrų mylėtojams.

[Eve L-A Witherington]

In this latest Izzy book, the gang get snowed in at school when the Beast From The East arrives in a fun humorous take on the real event which happened!



However as the gang think a yeti is their beast they set out to save themselves and the school losing Maisie in the process and troublemaker Gary joins them this time too briefly as well, it a wild tale set in deep snow this is a book that will really make you laugh once again as a simple situation gets blown away out of proportion!



I loved that it was also set around the real Beast From The East!

[Mary Pimbblet]

This wasn’t one of the strongest books of the Baby Aliens series, but it’s still a good read with my eight year old daughter.
The plot just felt a little too stretched to make this believable as an adult, too many children running around in a blizzard without any adults taking responsibility. I know it’s supposed to be a bit of fun, it’s only that the earlier books in the series managed to create a much more realistic balance.
My eight year old enjoyed it anyway, but it didn’t have the laugh out loud moments that some of the other books in the series did.

[Pippa]

It's quite difficult to read this as many of the words emphasised are written in capital letters. I guess it's not putting children off, as this is the eighth in the series. It was a very exciting story for children, which just might terrify them - all growing out of a simple misunderstanding. All is resolved happily though.

[Princess]

Gripping, sensational and extremely funny. The suspense in the plot makes you want to read on. This is a good, fun, light read. I would recommend it for children who are aged 8-10. You feel as if you are in the book with the main character and her friends as they set off on a quest to find the Beast of the East!

[Keela]

pretty good book i enjoyed it. the font is a good size so it makes it easy to read. i read it in about 3 days. i really liked the plot and how it really feels like a school based scenario.overall an 8.2 out of 10.would recommend!

[Mama ant dviračio]

Labai tiko ir septynmetei, kuriai skaičiau, ir dešimtmečiui, kuris skaitė pats.

Tai yra juokinga istorija apie tai, kaip penktadienio popietę ateina pūga, ir užpusto mokyklą. Niekas negali išeiti namo. O vaikai nuklauso suaugusiųjų pokalbį: "atėjo monstras iš rytų, jis jau čia".

[aanaya]

This is probably the second best Pamela Butchart book I have ever read (so far) also my first best is The spy who loved school dinners! I’m not gonna spoil it or anything but it is a really good book and there is basically a yeti in the playground, there’s also a very big plot twist at the end!

[Indeneri]

A bit long winded, and I think the word "gasped" comes up 500 times.

We've read a couple of Butchart books now and loved all of them. This one however had stilted prose and a plot stretched nearly past my patience.

[Cadie Phillips]

Super cute story. My students thought it was very funny and couldn't wait to keep reading it. They want to read others in the series now.

[Claire Cheeseman]

Didn't even finish - class uninspired barring some mildly humorous parts to it. Badly written with lots if ’said’ and nothing else. Not recommended

[Jenn M Doyle]

Written from the point of view of an 8 year old. Really well done and some very funny parts. My 6 year old loved this book.

[Mushy Bunny]

This was the first book I read that was written by this author. The yeti's favourite colour was PINK! Don't want to give away too much but there is a twist at the end.

[Abby]

Just as good as the others in the series. I enjoy reading these books, as the humour and story is full of fun. I have a Year 3 class and I know these will prove very popular as class reads.

[Prudence Riley]

It was about a girl and a yeti. It was funny. (Prue, aged 6)

[JurassicRex]

I loved it especially when they trap Macy's mum by accident.

[Ashleigh - Hazel]

It was pretty boring but had some parts funny and it was a good book for little children's and I would recommend for children aged 5-8 would like this book.

[Caitlin Townsend-Edgeworth]

Its enjoyable and fun to read

[Ava Plummer]

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[Aiza Zahra]

This is a great book if you want to start reading thicker books. I looved the style of the illustrations.

[Holly Eastwood]

The yeti ended up being maisie's mum, instead of an actual yeti

[Medeinė]

Mano mėgstamiausia knygų serija :-)