Hello, Is Anybody There? - Hardcover

Gaarder, Jostein; Anderson, James

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0374329486 ISBN 13: 9780374329488

Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1998

Synopsis

Eight-year-old Joe is about to become a big brother, and while at the hospital, he meets Mika from Eljo, where children hatch out of eggs and life is different from anything Joe knows, but when Mika is suddenly gone one day, Joe is left with a new appreciation for the wonders of the universe.

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Review:

In this book about the wonder of life by the author of Sophie's World, eight-year-old Joe is about to become a big brother. His mother is in labour at the hospital when he looks outside and sees a little boy hanging upside down in an apple tree. It's Mika, who has just fallen out of a spaceship. Mika is from Eljo, where children hatch out of eggs and life in general is quite different from what Joe knows. Mika and Joe become instant friends and spend the day discussing everything from dinosaurs and gravity to the origins of life on Earth. The next morning Mika is gone, but Joe has a new-found appreciation for the wonders of the universe--and a baby brother!

Illustrated with whimsical line drawings--and framed by thought-provoking questions: "Can animals think?"; "what would you say if you had a visit from another planet?"--Hello? Is Anybody There? challenges readers to look at the world afresh, much in the manner of The Little Prince.

Book Description:

A magical story by the author of the international bestseller, 'Sophie's World'. Unabridged edition.

About this edition

• Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0374329486
• ISBN 13: 9780374329488
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 144
• Illustrator: Gardner Sally