What do you think?
Rate this book
Alien Snow
On a winter day, a young boy visits a strange antique shop. The eerie shopkeeper tries to interest the boy in his personal collection of snow globes. The boy is polite, but clearly bored by the objects. Then suddenly, the boy finds himself trapped inside one of the globes, another prisoner in the shopkeeper's collection. The boy must find a way to escape, or remain a trapped forever!
- GenresGraphic Novels
48 pages, Library Binding
First published August 1, 2010
15 people want to read
About the author
Michael Dahl
559 books155 followersMichael Dahl is the author of over 200 books for children and young adults, including the acclaimed Finnegan Zwake mystery series and The Library of Doom. His works have earned Edgar and Anthony Award nominations and national design honors. As Editorial Director at Stone Arch Books, he champions engaging, award-winning stories that inspire young readers everywhere.
He also writes under aliases Chris Carey, Rick Thomas, and Mark Ziegler.
He also writes under aliases Chris Carey, Rick Thomas, and Mark Ziegler.
Ratings & Reviews
Friends & Following
Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!
Community Reviews
Displaying 1 - 8 of 8 reviews
November 3, 2025
So the top of the pages are red and the bottom are blue. The red means the bad guys and the blue means the good guys, so it’s like good versus evil! I don’t really know why it’s called Alien Snow because it’s not really about snow. If I were to write this comic, I would probably call it something else. But I liked the story a lot, it was really cool!😎
January 2, 2012
Reason for Reading: Ds read aloud to me as his reader. He loved the first book in the series that he read.
Ds eagerly grabbed this book when I presented it to him as he had loved the other "Good vs Evil" book we had read. Written with the story told from the evil character's perspective on one half of the page and from the good character's on the other half. One can read the book up to three times for a different viewpoint each time. DS read this twice, once from each point of view. First he read across the top of the pages covering up the bottom half while reading from the evil point of view which is about an alien creature disguised as an old man who runs an antiques store, but who secretly has his own collection of planetary specimens. Then ds read the story along the bottom half of the pages from the good perspective, that of a boy who sees something neat in the window of the store and goes in but never comes out again. This time we kept the top uncovered and watched how the two points of view merged together as the good side unrolled.
A creepy little Twilight Zone-type of story. Ds highly wants the other two books in the series. He is a reluctant reader and never asks for books, and he's specifically said he doesn't want to get these out of the library, he wants his own. Since this is such a rarity I am going to get the books for him. I hope the series continues and perhaps uses more text as of right now the books are highly picture based with a minimum of text.
Ds eagerly grabbed this book when I presented it to him as he had loved the other "Good vs Evil" book we had read. Written with the story told from the evil character's perspective on one half of the page and from the good character's on the other half. One can read the book up to three times for a different viewpoint each time. DS read this twice, once from each point of view. First he read across the top of the pages covering up the bottom half while reading from the evil point of view which is about an alien creature disguised as an old man who runs an antiques store, but who secretly has his own collection of planetary specimens. Then ds read the story along the bottom half of the pages from the good perspective, that of a boy who sees something neat in the window of the store and goes in but never comes out again. This time we kept the top uncovered and watched how the two points of view merged together as the good side unrolled.
A creepy little Twilight Zone-type of story. Ds highly wants the other two books in the series. He is a reluctant reader and never asks for books, and he's specifically said he doesn't want to get these out of the library, he wants his own. Since this is such a rarity I am going to get the books for him. I hope the series continues and perhaps uses more text as of right now the books are highly picture based with a minimum of text.
September 22, 2011
Another Capstone Publishing book, this line of graphic novels titled Good vs. Evil.
This is an interesting graphic novel that got me reading it twice just to see how it changed. The concept of the Good vs. Evil line is to have the opportunity to read the story from different perspectives. At first I thought this was more like choose your own adventure but it's not. The top half of each page is inked in red and the bottom half in blue. Read just the top you get the perspective of "evil" or, in this case, an alien who captures the boy. The bottom half is from the boy's perspective and inked in blue.
Reading just one or the other, does give an interesting perspective but leaves out minor details. The thing I liked about that concept is that you could feel a story from the character not the omnipresent narrator, which is common in graphic novels.
The story is not very long making it perfect for young readers but the concept of the good vs. evil will appeal to older readers looking for a quick read.
Because Capstone is education oriented, the end of the story comes with questions that get the reader thinking about different aspects of the story. These have more to do with the creation of the story or how the drawings give more information instead of focusing on moral issues.
The end wraps up with a quick lesson on how graphic novels are created. This is fascinating, even for the most advanced graphic novel reader.
This is an interesting graphic novel that got me reading it twice just to see how it changed. The concept of the Good vs. Evil line is to have the opportunity to read the story from different perspectives. At first I thought this was more like choose your own adventure but it's not. The top half of each page is inked in red and the bottom half in blue. Read just the top you get the perspective of "evil" or, in this case, an alien who captures the boy. The bottom half is from the boy's perspective and inked in blue.
Reading just one or the other, does give an interesting perspective but leaves out minor details. The thing I liked about that concept is that you could feel a story from the character not the omnipresent narrator, which is common in graphic novels.
The story is not very long making it perfect for young readers but the concept of the good vs. evil will appeal to older readers looking for a quick read.
Because Capstone is education oriented, the end of the story comes with questions that get the reader thinking about different aspects of the story. These have more to do with the creation of the story or how the drawings give more information instead of focusing on moral issues.
The end wraps up with a quick lesson on how graphic novels are created. This is fascinating, even for the most advanced graphic novel reader.
Read
May 18, 2014The book that I read today is about a boy named jack ,that went to a antique shop to buy a moon lander,but the shopp keeper was more interested in showing the boy snow globes.jack didn't want to see the snow globes.he wanted his moonlander. But then, he got trapped in one. Then,jack saw that the shop keeper was an alien. He got trapped in the snow globe for a long time, until a man also got dropped in the same snow globe as him. The both had a plan to escape the snow globe.
The boy used his glasses to break the glass. He did this buy shining the light on the glass. They both got out, but as they tried escAping the snow globe, they kept on finding themselves trapped in the snow globe again and again and again and again and again.
The alien started laughing at them because he knew that they would never escape. The man in the globe had an idea. He said that they would try to push the snow globe off the counter table. It worked. But the snow globe had many dimension. Then they know that they can never escape the globe.EEEEEEEEVVVVVVVVEEEEEEEERRRRRRRR.
THIS IS WHAT I READ TODAY IN MY BOOK
The boy used his glasses to break the glass. He did this buy shining the light on the glass. They both got out, but as they tried escAping the snow globe, they kept on finding themselves trapped in the snow globe again and again and again and again and again.
The alien started laughing at them because he knew that they would never escape. The man in the globe had an idea. He said that they would try to push the snow globe off the counter table. It worked. But the snow globe had many dimension. Then they know that they can never escape the globe.EEEEEEEEVVVVVVVVEEEEEEEERRRRRRRR.
THIS IS WHAT I READ TODAY IN MY BOOK
September 4, 2011
Reviewed at: Over A Cuppa Tea
Review date: 5th September 2011
Review link: http://cleffairy.wordpress.com/2011/09/04/alien-snow/
‘Alien Snow’ is a wonderful children interactive book that tells the story from two sides: from the protagonist’s point of view, and the antagonist’s point of view.
This book is a very interesting children book, and it’s one book that you’d want your young boys to read. There’s adventure and the elemant of fantasies in it, and I’m sure that it will encourage the young minds to think imaginatively.
I suppose this book makes a good Winter vacation read as well as a classroom material.
I received an ARC of this book from Capstone Publisher via Netgalley and I was not required to write a positive review for it. I was not compensated in any ways for this.
Review date: 5th September 2011
Review link: http://cleffairy.wordpress.com/2011/09/04/alien-snow/
‘Alien Snow’ is a wonderful children interactive book that tells the story from two sides: from the protagonist’s point of view, and the antagonist’s point of view.
This book is a very interesting children book, and it’s one book that you’d want your young boys to read. There’s adventure and the elemant of fantasies in it, and I’m sure that it will encourage the young minds to think imaginatively.
I suppose this book makes a good Winter vacation read as well as a classroom material.
I received an ARC of this book from Capstone Publisher via Netgalley and I was not required to write a positive review for it. I was not compensated in any ways for this.
March 3, 2013
This graphic novel provides two takes on the same events. In one story, a boy spots a space toy that he must have, and in another version of the story, the shop owner spots something he must add to his own collection. Either way you read it, both end up very far from home.
July 19, 2011
Full review on HorrorTalk: http://bit.ly/qov5hP
Read
September 13, 2016Its realiy easy
Displaying 1 - 8 of 8 reviews