"It was a dark and stormy night; Meg Murry, her small brother Charles Wallace, and her mother were in the kitchen for a midnight snack when they were upset by the arrival of a most disturbing stranger. 'Wild nights are my glory,' the unearthly stranger told them. 'I just got caught in a downdraft and blown off course. Let me sit down for a moment, and then I'll be on my way. Speaking of ways, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract.' A tesseract...

"An indispensable resource, this book provides wide coverage on aliens in fiction and popular culture"--

Professor Igor relates the tale of how he got his latest specimen--a brain, which once belonged to a poor human boy. Aliens are involved in how the boy lost the brain.

The Galactic Expansion Home for Lost Children, otherwise known in Ravens Pass as the Old Orphanage, is full of alien children ready to take over the planet--but at least one of them may actually be a human spy.

In this picture book, a boy writes a letter to an imagined alien, explaining all the things he will need to know about Earth and the people who live here--and adding a postscript asking what the alien might look like.

Contains a collection of science fiction and fantasy short stories about aliens, destiny, and imagination.

As an intergalactic explorer born on a traveling spaceship, you have to choose what planet to call home and each decision results in a different encounter with aliens and space creatures.