Praise for I Come from Another Galaxy

Deeply approachable in tone, the text’s epistolary style and first-person perspective offer emotional insights into the experience of relocation. Charming visual details...add narrative depth to the appealingly spare illustrations...A comforting dispatch about interplanetary acceptance.
Kirkus Reviews

An intrepid youth describes life among alien peers in this interstellar journal account turned school tale...Kwan’s cool-toned drawings combine polychromatic outlining and digitally colored shading that amplifies the story’s fantastical elements.
Publishers Weekly

Diary-style prose captures James’s earnest, often charming perspective...This reassuring, accessible story speaks to both nervous newcomers and their future friends.
Horn Book Magazine


About the Author

James Kwan is an animator and illustrator with a BFA from Pratt Institute. He is the illustrator of A Case of the Zaps (a Good Housekeeping Best Kids’ Picture Book), and his picture books Dear Yeti and How It Feels to Be a Boat received starred reviews from Kirkus and Publishers Weekly and were featured in the New York Times. He was a character artist on BoJack Horseman and has also animated, illustrated, and directed work with many clients, including Microsoft and LEGO. He lives in Ridgewood, NY.

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