Pluto Gets the Call

(Hardback)

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Pluto gets a call from Earth telling him he isnt a planet anymore, so he sets out on a journey through the solar system to find out why in this funny and fact-filled romp thats perfect for fans of The Scrambled States of America.

Pluto loves being a planet. That is, until the day he gets a call from some Earth scientists telling him he isnt a planet anymore! You probably wanted to meet a real planet, huh So, Pluto takes the reader on a hilarious and informative journey through the solar system to introduce the other planets and commiserate about his situation along the way. Younger readers will be so busy laughing over Plutos interactions with the other planets, asteroids, moons, and even the sun, they wont even realize just how much theyre learning about our solar system!

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Adam Rexis theNew York Timesbestselling author and illustrator ofFrankenstein Makes a Sandwich. His other books includeThe True Meaning of Smekday, which was made into the hit animated movieHome;Moonday; andSchools First Day of School, illustrated by Christian Robinson. He also illustrated the Brixton Brothers series,Billy Twitters and His Blue Whale Problem,Chloe and the Lion, andHow This Book Was Made, all by Mac Barnett, andChus Day, by Neil Gaiman. He lives in Tucson, Arizona. Visit him at AdamRex.com or follow him on Twitter @MrAdamRex.

Laurie Kelleris the acclaimed author-illustrator ofDo Unto Otters;Arnie, the Doughnut;The Scrambled States of America; andOpen Wide: Tooth School Inside, among numerous others. She grew up in Muskegon, Michigan, and always loved to draw, paint and write stories. She earned a BFA at Kendall College of Art and Design, then worked at Hallmark as a greeting card illustrator for seven-and-a-half years, until one night she got an idea for a childrens book. She quit her job, moved to New York City, and soon had published her first book. She loved living in New York, but she has now returned to her home state, where she lives in a little cottage in the woods on the shore of Lake Michigan.